Framework Reports Samples For Students

1. Executive Summary
Today’s intensely competitive business environment necessitates the adoption of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) practices, because business houses are expected to protect and sustain the environment and communities in which they operate. Founded in 1953, the Burger King grew fast as an international food chain. The company strives to be a responsible corporate citizen while promoting its business goals and objectives successfully. Food, people, environment, and corporate governance constitute the four essential elements of the Burger King’s CSR approach. The company operates the Burger King McLamore Foundation to best serve the needs of its different ...

Introduction

Owing to the fact that policy implementation is essential to the development of a company, Turner Constructions needs to embrace an influential ethical decision making framework. This is largely accredited to the fact that the current system is rather inefficient and is not centered towards the welfare of the employees. The current system does not ensure equality in the employee compensation due to the wide salary margin between field engineers and project managers $54,522 and $130, 893 (Payscale, 2016). Additionally, the newly employed personnel do not get a good conducive environment for growth due to the inadequacies of ...

Introduction

Steps towards the creation of a successful e-marketing strategy
Marketing environment
Environmental framework identity
Strengths and the weaknesses of the business Environmental framework identity
Formulation of the business marketing plans.
Marketing strategies based on the business Niche and target markets
Positioning and differentiation strategy
Domain name and SEO strategy
The Business Cost analysis
Development of the business ideas
Creation of a business website prototype
Creation of a wire frame and a navigational outline strategy
Creation and the analysis of the social media strategy
Creation of a business email newsletter.
Identification of business matrices in the business success analysis
Development ...

Information systems

The company that I have chosen to undertake my research is Senior Care Company which is a healthcare system company. Senior Care Company requires an Enterprise Information System that will totally robotize its business operations. The organization has been encountering a few challenges with the current framework. The current framework is included an electronic framework for some of operations, for example, preparing of the solution requests, treatment of requests, stock, and charging administration methods. The majority of these procedures are incompletely paper-based. Senior Care Company utilizes a blend of Microsoft Excel spreadsheets, and Microsoft Access database and obsolete exceptionally conveyed charging programming ...

Purposes of the Report

The goal of the report is to update and actualize a succeeding system for the company’s customers. As a system Designer, I have designed a system to be presented to the CEO of the firm on the concept of a model that is an ideal solution for the current contemporary market. This would constitute a working database that contains the current information about the customers. Similarly, the database can and or will be controlled remotely and managed by the company’s techs.

Introduction

The company, an industrialist of heavy-duty power equipment, currently uses manual advancements methods to take record ...

In Partial Fulfilment of the Requirements in

Executive Summary
Introduction
Globalization is one of the major factors that influence the way people and groups such as organizations go about their lives today. Essentially, globalization refers to the integration of people, organizations, cultures, and sectors around the world. Progress and development, particularly in technology, facilitate globalization in that it creates small communities that interact and brings about various outcomes. In the business sector, globalization has made possible the development of the multicultural or diverse workplace. As organizations transition into multinational companies and as they acknowledge the advantages and contributions of diversity to their business, businesses ...

Facilitator:

Amidst intense competition, the goals of the Los Angeles Tribune stand out as the keys that the newspaper vendor should account for in order to control the market. When setting goals for the entity, quality strategies must be observed, which means the firm must set SMART goals. Particularly, before designing the goal-setting framework, the firm should consider the fact that the goals set must be specific, measurable, attainable, and reasonable and time bound due to the nature of competition in the American market (Efroymson, Jager, Dale, & Westervelt, 2009). The goal-setting framework encompasses various sections that constitute the aggregate framework. ...

Executive summary

The National Bank of Canada has its headquarters in Montreal, and it is Canada’s sixth largest bank. It was started on 4th May 1859 by the francophone business people in Banque and Ontario. The bank has 2.4 million personal clients and most of its branches in the Canadian provinces. It has many representative offices partnerships and subsidiaries in other countries where it serves both non-Canadian and Canadian customers. The bank’s management structure consists of the board of directors and the office of the president. The bank is upholding a proper governance system and appropriate ethical strategies to ...

Introduction

Bromford Group is an organization deeply committed to offer a variety of quality housing services that meet the needs of our clients. Our work always revolves around the aspect that we need to be dynamic and sensitive to consumer needs and as well as keep at par with the emerging trends and issues. We have engaged the services of revered professional to ensure we give the best. Over the past decade, we have improved steadily, a sure sign of our solid mastery of the social housing provision services. We hope to grow and become the leading housing organization globally.

Housing organizations

A tenancy ...

QUESTION ONE:

In both north end and first floor, two types of the sprinklers may be used which are the wet sprinkler and the system of pre-action sprinkler. The pre-action sprinklers are often more advantageous compared to the wet sprinklers.
The pre action sprinklers operate like the network of storm sprinklers but the only difference is the fact that the sprinklers are shut. This framework is commonly in ranges involving supplies or substances of heightened quality that are delicate. The pre action sprinklers are shut to reduce the impact of pressure on the delicate items.
The wet funnel sprinklers ...

Introduction

The purpose of this project is to outline a framework to ensure the sustainability of UK aircraft carrier. It outlines some of the challenges that face the industry. Additionally, it presents a framework which can be used to address these challenges. The project also highlights a measurement regime which can be used to assess the proposed framework. Mainstream media have repetitively documented the impact of seaway transport and their eco-efficiency concerning a sustainable future. By minimizing operation and manufacturing impacts, airbus aims at optimizing their services and product towards an eco-efficient technology to minimize their environmental impact. Throughout the ...

Introduction

This report aims to analyse the Triple Bottom Line theory in accordance to sustainability methods and processes. The event which will be related to this study will be Tomorrowland the festival which has been held since year 2005. The sustainability policy of the event’s business processes and operations will be critically assessed and appraised which will be aligned with suitable recommendations for more effective sustainability methods.

Tomorrowland

Tomorrowland is an Electronic Music Festival held in Boom, Belgium every year since 2005. The target audience of the festival are young adults from ages 18 to 27. Their socioeconomic target are ...

Management and Audit

Information Technology Auditing: A Value-Added IT Governance Partnership between IT
Management and Audit

Summary

In the article Information Technology Auditing: A Value-added IT Governance Partnership between IT Management and Audit, which was published in Communications

of the Association for Information Systems, the authors Merhout & Havelka (2008) discuss the importance of information technology in corporate governance. They argue that aside from providing assurance, the establishment of partnerships between the audit function and the IT management team can provide organizations with additional value. They posit that the successful implementation of IT audits requires sound project management principles and a quality audit ...

Introduction

It is becoming clear that the many practices that are seen in lifestyles today cannot meet sustainability in a definite manner. The planet is becoming small and more resources are not in a position to be produced. What is more, there are many inhabitants who cannot even provide the very basic needs that they need. The problem of the need to live with the limited resources that are there today with equal access to limited resources is one of the concepts of sustainable development. There is complexity in engineering and products; this has called for engineers to consider ways of approaching ...

Oil Search Limited, established in 1929 in Papua New Guinea has its focus on oil and gas exploration and development . During the course of this long standing relationship with the Government of Papua New Guinea and its people, the company has shown immense commitment in ensuring the welfare of the country and its people through various societal benefit programs. This report focuses on Oil Search Limited; various corporate responsibility programs initiated and implemented the company, and the company’s risk management framework and infrastructure.

Company Overview

Among the various projects, the main asset of the company is its 29% stake in ...

Executive Summary

This paper is a detailed analysis of the Associated British Foods (ABF) business operations around the world. It presents a brief discussion of the ABF portfolio. This is swiftly followed by a discussion on one of the subsidiary companies of ABE-Primark, that has shown exceptional performance accruing financial benefits to the firm. Thirdly, the paper discusses the role that the parent firm-ABF plays in the management of operations of its subsidiary firms and the larger conglomerate. Finally, the paper presents a discussion on the diversification of the ABF firm relating this to the historical framework of diversification suggested by scholars Goold and Luchs ( ...

Introduction

Hake is a financial services provider that offers homebuyers mortgage options which are considered to be cheap. It is a privately owned company managed by its founder and CEO, Alan Hake. The focus of this enterprise is to allow consumers to get access to home loans at a low interest rate. These goals can be achieved with the design, development, and implementation of an efficient computer network with the intention of controlling expense by keeping labor costs low. The company’s system will need to meet tight security guidelines. The security and privacy of the consumers’ personal information will be at the ...

Assignment 3-2: Strategy Formulation

Franklin University
BSAD 495: Business Strategy Capstone
Strategy Formulation
Strategy formulation develops into a key construct within an organization as it facilitates the development of strategies geared towards promoting organizational growth as stipulated within the organization’s vision and mission statements (David et al., 2004). Strategy formulation develops from the existence of need within the businesses, which hinders potential development and growth. The strategy formulation process is initiated upon the identification of the problem and consequent development of several measures geared towards countering the existent problem.
The study will integrate an analysis of several potential strategies, which may facilitate ...

Introduction

Contactless payment systems have evolved into a popular method of payment across the United Kingdom and internationally (CPSS 2012). Many merchants, including ExxonMobil, McDonald’s, Burger King, AMT Coffee, Tesco, Subway and other notable members of the hospitality, production, energy and other industries accept this form of payment (Anderson 2015). The most influential members of the international financial community, including MasterCard, Citibank, American Express, JPMorgan Chase, Barclays Bank, Visa and other institutions, involved in banking and financial sector, power the system (Dapp 2012; Chaudhyry 2012). The commentators anticipate that by 2020 every third transaction online and offline will be ...

INTRODUCTION

Information management is an important concept in any organization. The management of IT management is an important aspect because there is a need to ensure that the business aligns with technology optimally. There are frameworks that have been developed to ensure that IT service management is achieved and undertaken well. One of the frameworks is ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library). One of the objectives of this report is to convince the Terra Firma management to adopt ITIL framework to manage their IT services. The report will then recommend the business process reengineering for the organization. This will mean that some ...

- Strategies used in Multiple Triangulations
The participant’s observations have been considered important as a number of factors like document analysis, merger of interview surveys, direct observations and the participation of the observer are involved. On the same grounds, experiment, survey, film, pictures and biographical methods have been defined in the category of approaches in order to get the data from sources. Most of the interpretive sociologists prefer to utilize triangulated method to make their schemes as unrestricted for the people. This reflects that such sociologists are committed to rigor their data. In this context, they will have ...

Procurement report:

Based on a case analysis of Nickelodeon

References 17

This report lays out methods of procurement which play a major factor in the process of planning for the client. It lays out procurement methodology, its classification and integration in both traditional and non-traditional methods of procurement. The report further avail points laid out in the Government of New South Wales that would assist a client in the selection of a method that’s most appropriate. Different options for procurement methods such as SWOT analysis, IFB, RFI, Design and Construct, and (EPC) Engineering, procurement and construction are presented. These constructs are availed, evaluated and explained putting ...

Abstract

This report analyses the problem of global warming. It involves an interview with three professionals with the view of gathering information about the best way of combatting global warming and improving life for future generations. The research examines important elements of global warming at the introduction. It then formulates a data collection system which includes open ended interviews. This is gathered and collated and summarized in order to draw a conclusion on the subject. The findings indicate that global warming is an international matter. This implies that in the current model of global governance, it is difficult to deal ...

Executive Summary

This paper discusses KFC, also referred to as Kentucky Fried Chicken. Specifically, the paper examines how the company is proposing certain changes in its menu offerings and the removal of antibiotics from its chicken. The paper looks at these proposed changes through the Lewin model and describes the challenges that the company will face both internally and externally in terms of these changes actually remaining given the context of the company being that of serving home-style cuisine.

Recommendation

The paper makes recommendations of how the company can effectively make sure that it does not falter on the proposed changes in ...

The Strengths Perspective in Social Work

The strengths perspective model of social work is based on exploiting the strengths of the individual, Gina in this case scenario, involved to help them resolve their issues, build them up and assist them in alleviating out of their predicament. These strengths create a resilient individual who can prevent a relapse into old habits that got the social workers involved in the first place. Resilience is crucial as it allows one to cope with new situations and make them withstand the mental pressure with which people are often afflicted. It also gives them the ability to come up with ...

Executive Summary

Risk management is the core function required to address the impending possibilities of a global financial crunch that might occur due to higher volatility in financial and commodity markets. Financial risks like Credit risk, Foreign Exchange risk, Interest Rate risk, etc. are of a prime importance as they result in the direct downswing of the involved business markets in the respective economies. Organizations have developed specific enterprise level risk management frameworks to encounter the business and market risk related contingencies. Financial risk models have already been defined by the BASEL committees in segment like those of expansion strategy, capital ...

Abstract

With the increased competition in the airline industry, especially in the low fare segment, Ryanair, the initiator of this segment in Europe, is faced with various pressures, coming from its competitors, external environment or industry trends. While the company has the resources to manage the challenges of the 21st century, which tops with the necessity to become a global brand, it also requires a sound strategy. This report starts with analysing the internal and external environment of Ryanair, in order to identify the strategic directions that it can pursue in its globalization approach and it further proposes a global ...

Abstract

With the increased competition in the airline industry, especially in the low fare segment, Ryanair, the initiator if this segment in Europe, is faced with various pressures, coming from its competitors, external environment or industry trends. While the company has the resources to manage the challenges of the 21st century, which tops with the necessity to become a global brand, it also requires a sound strategy. This report starts with analysing the internal and external environment of Ryanair, in order to identify the strategic directions that it can pursue in its globalization approach and it further proposes a global ...

Object Oriented Programming (OOP) is a framework for system design. This framework looks at all datastructures within the system as objects. These objects have attributes that define the object. Methods are used to manipulate data within these objects. Entities are external storages and human users of the system. An entity relationship model is a model that contains objects, methods and entities and their interactions with one another. Contemporary programmers use the OOP framework to design automated systems (docs.oracle.com). In this paper, we examine two key concepts of OOP and present a sample algorithm using OOP concepts.
Deborah J. Armstrong proposed some ...

Blue Ocean Strategy is a book authored by Renee Mauborgne and W. Chan Kim that dwells on strategic business moves companies can make to tap into uncontested markets. The book, published in 2005, embodies the emergence of rapid change and innovation in recent years while at the same time injecting dynamism in business strategy. The book classifies businesses into two groups; Red Oceans and Blue Oceans. The former group, Kim and Mauborgne note comprises of static businesses that dwell on battling competitors. A strategy that is highly unlikely to bring forth a prospect of profit growth to companies that practice it. ...

Video and Computer Games Industry

Organizations rely on environmental scanning to carefully monitor their internal and external environments with the aim of detecting opportunities and threats that may have a bearing on their current and future plans. Changes in technology have contributed to increased dynamics in the video and computer games industry, and companies have been forced to transform and adapt to stay competitive. Enterprises focusing on the retailing of DVD/CD/Computer games have been affected by the advent of competition especially from companies utilizing digital platforms to provide video and computer games to their clients (Grüsser et al., 291). There has been the ...

Introduction

Globalization of economies and the strengthening of political and economic relationships in the European Union have had the significant influence on the development of retail industry in the country. The fashion industry is highly dependent on the social and economic trends. With increased mobility of individuals and the digitalization of the markets, companies are obliged to look or ways to further enhance their brand and become more responsive to increasingly dynamic fashion market and consumers, who are more demanding with regards to the short lifecycle of the products today, than ten and even five years ago. Moreover, competition on ...

Space/ Scale/ Territory

Millennium Park is a 24.5-acre park that has several venues for performance, art, architecture, sculpture, and landscape architecture. It is located centrally in Chicago’s central business district and the lakefront. The Millennium Park emerged from a dilapidated ground-level parking space and rail yard into perhaps what may be regarded as the world’s biggest “green roof,” spanning two multi-level parking spaces with a total of over 4,000 cars and one commuter rail line. In Millennium Park, space is created in various ways. For example, there is the illusion of space created through structures and activities that allow ...

Introduction

The Abaya business has been chosen and developed as it is an important part of Emirati tradition and culture. The staff making Abayas has 15 years of experience and their experience helps in developing high quality abayas. The products are customized according to customer needs and the price is kept low, in order to compete with bigger brands making abayas. The company has a strong customer base, but suffers due to significantly higher rent.
Employees by motivated through sales bonuses, but it has been tough to cover the basic costs of running the business. The business wants to exploit ...

The City and State

Executive Summary
The present report analyses the data provided as part of the ongoing efforts to arrive at data driven decision making for the coffee roaster and supplier firm –‘Sublime Delights.’ The report takes into account the BADIRTM methodology in order to develop an analysis strategy and derive meaningful and actionable intelligence for the management of the company to take effective decisions. The report starts with a brief introduction of the company, proceeds further with the problem statement and the methodology used. The report then goes on to process and analyze the data as collected from various sources towards ...

An Assignment Submitted by

Rationale and Outline
Falls are a major cause of injuries, morbidity, and even mortality for all individuals and especially in the case of older adults. During the past three months around 10 incidents of falls were registered in the busy 36-bed medicine floor unit, where the majority of them occurred during the trips to the bathroom. Due to the possible negative outcomes for the health of the patients that may cause serious injury, it was essential for the healthcare unit to implement effective measures to minimize the factors causing the falls and prevent their occurring in future. The main ...

Introduction

Staples.com is an online store for office products and a source of other office solutions. It provides furniture, affordable copy and print services, office supplies, technology to offices and boardrooms through its online ecommerce site which was created and operationalized in 1986. Since its inception, the firm’s internet sales have reached $25 billion and rank behind Amazon in terms of online sales (Staples.com, 2016). Staples.com has its headquarters in Boston United States of America. Today it has presence in Americas, Europe, Asia and Australia meaning that the firm serves diverse customers of different demographic profiles.
This is a ...

Comparison of Maestro with Adaco ERP Vendor

The hospitality industry has competitively experienced a huge competitive edge across the globe day by day. Within the framework of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), the hospitality industry has several ERP vendors which provide different forms of software to provide a smooth operations of the industry’s activities.
First, Maestro ensures provision of a full spectrum of hospitality services and software in infrastructure management, which includes vendor management, help desk support, upgrades, virtualization and integrations/migrations. On the other hand, Adaco provides a globally leading operation and purchasing control solution for the hospitality industry.
The products offered by Adaco.NET encompass a ...

Tourism is the source of multiple economic benefits to any locality or country that attracts a steady flow of travelers. Foreign visitors can become a valuable source of foreign currency. So, a developing country should use its chance and reach its peak by boosting its revenues and getting its place in the competitive industry. Jamaica is focused on developing sustainable tourism and is ready to cope with difficulties on its way in order to get the tourism benefits and not harm its unique nature.
But tourism has not only positive but also negative factors that can endanger the economy ...

Introduction 4

1. Advertising 4
2. Key Strategic Issues 6
3. Hotel Riu Guadalajara 6
3.2 Logo 7
3.3 Concept7
3.4 Target Market7
4. Media plan and Evaluation of media plan8
4.1 Setting media objectives:9
4.2 Evaluating existing and needed media:9
4.3 Setting the media budget10
5. Marketing Campaigns11
5.1 Cultural Marketing12
5.2 Social Media Marketing13
5.3 Commercials 13
6. Conclusion 15

Introduction

1. Advertising
Advertising is as much a psychological endeavor as much business endeavor. Advertising looks to the consumer to understand their message and act in the way that the advertisers suggest. Advertising can be tailored to cross cultural advertising ...

Social Entrepreneurship: The Ashoka Foundation

Introduction
Social entrepreneurship is the application of entrepreneurial skills to solve social problems. On the other hand, social entrepreneurs are the individual who use a business approach to formulate innovative solutions to societal problems in a bid to bring wide scale and positive change. Unlike conventional entrepreneurship that is aimed at maximizing profits and returns on investment, social entrepreneurship is more concerned with bringing positive change in the society (Brand 2011). Social entrepreneurs aim at introducing cultural, social, and environmental impacts. Also, social enterprises can be profit oriented or non-profit depending on the approach and purpose of the organization. ...

[College]

Political: 5

Economic: 6
Social: 6
Technological: 6
Environmental: 7
Legal: 7
- SWOT Analysis. 7

Strength. 8

Weakness. 8
Opportunities. 9
Threats. 9
4) Competitive Strategy Analysis: Five Forces, Value Chain Strategy Clock. 9

A) Five Forces: 9

Threat of new entrants: 10
Threat of substitute products and services: 10
Bargaining power suppliers: 10
Bargaining power of buyers: 11
Rivalry among existing competitors: 11
Recommendations: 11
B) Value Chain: 12
C) Strategic Clock: 12
5) The Further Suggestions. 13

References 14

Samsung: Strategic Management: Business Report.
1) Samsung: Introduction and Background of the Topic.
Samsung Group (in future SG) is the Korean global company - well known ...

Executive Summary

Technological advancements have led to the growth of the internet and the revolution of the digital platforms for various economies. The emergence of e-learning businesses has not only impacted on the education sector but also on the way firms carry out their operations. The fruits of e-learning in education can be seen clearly in the just-in-time learning and flexibility in teaching modules. The management and operation of firm’s activities have been boosted by the various training and development activities arising from e-learning. The innovation has spread as well as globalized various economies. However, despite all these, e-learning businesses ...

General Summary of the Application of Positive Psychology in the field of Psychology

Psychology is a vast field. One of the main reasons why psychology, the study of human behavior and of the human mind, has been developed both as an academic discipline and a branch of applied science was because of the lack of society’s understanding of how mental illnesses and disorders develop and can be treated, or so at least in the past. Psychology has often thrived thanks to the collective and scientific approach that it uses to understand individuals and or groups of individuals, establishing theories that could help better understand the underlying mental health and or behavioral problems in a ...

The prime mantra of this paper is to exploit both the concept of cost and revenue models on the given companies whose nature of business are identical. There are two hypothetical based companies that have been selected for the execution of the same analysis. The underline companies are denoted by Company X and Company Y. They both have dissimilar pricing policies with one another. The entire assignment is divided into different headings that are mainly based on the Introduction, Analytical Framework, and the Conclusion.

Analytical Framework

Brand Y “lit” pricing/sales history
There are a number of tools and models that have a ...

Marketing Management

18.12.2014

Introduction

The launch of modern hypermarkets and superstores is re-shaping and reviving the retail sector in UAE. The country’s grocery market closed at approximately 9.5 billion U.S. dollars in 2012 with more than 9,000 grocery outlets. Huge opportunity is seen by modern grocery outlets in Dubai due to favorable government regulations. Currently 943 stores are categorized as modern grocery stores but this number will increase enormously as the distinctive demographic makeup of the country with a large number of immigrants and expatriates attract many international and global chains
Keeping the increasing investment and government focus on the ...

Business Intelligence and enterprise data mining management

Business intelligence is one of the techniques of analyzing business process data in the enterprise and mainly comprises the practice of capturing and assessing various aspects of customers, competitors and the enterprise as a whole. BI is used in gathering, storing, analyzing and providing access to intelligent information used to derive trends, patterns of business and decision-making processes. Enterprises can make more accurate information concerning tactical and strategic plans such as determining supply chain or competing in a specific market.
This paper concerns an implementation plan for building up BI and EMD capabilities in Woolworth. The paper will discuss user ...

Introduction:

Come 17th January 2015- Adelaide City, South Australia will pedal off the 17th edition of exciting and fun filled International Cycling race event- Santos Tour Down under 2015. The event is organized by The Union Cyclist International (UCI) is an international body of the Cycling Federation.
The Santos Tour Down Under is a mega international cycling race event organized every year, typically in the third week of January. The 2015 Santos Tour Down Under will be held in Adelaide, South Australia, from 17-25 January 2015. The city is gearing itself to play host to this megacycle racing extravaganza. For ...

Using theoretical frameworks like the one proposed by Alan Fox outlined in the lecture given in Week 3, explain to Ms Cutter the different ways in which the employment relationship can be conceptualised.
Employment relationship is an elemental factor in every organizational setting and operating. It affects the manner in which functional operations take place. It is a crucial factor, which has significant effects on the type of relationship existing in the employment setting of all organizations. Following a conversation with the Bytes Electronics’ General Manager, Ms Cutter, it is clear that she in need of advice on how to ...

Describe and evaluate the changing business environment of this company over the last ten years using appropriate theories, models and relevant examples.

Executive summary

The following report will be based on the H&M company as the case study on how the changes in the business environment of multinational companies. It will focus on the history of the company from the beginning to the present state of the company. This will cover the company expansion strategy and how well it has worked for them. Discuss the models and theories of the business environment while providing a detailed definition of the business environment in ...

Effective Training and Development

Effective training and development is an imperative aspect in human personnel management as it ensures that employees are equipped with suitable qualifications (both academic and professional skills). This means that employees can perform their duties effectively and be evaluated through performance appraisal to determine their weaknesses and strengths. The UK government has put in place various training programs that place an emphasis on lifelong learning and continuous development (Barrow, 2003, p.97). A focus will be placed on Qualification and Curriculum Authority (QCA) and National Vocational Qualifications in this document by highlighting their effectiveness in personnel training and development. The ...

Issue: Criminal Accountability of UN Officials on mission

Position: Head Chair/Co-Chair
Introduction
The criminal accountability of the UN Officials on mission is one of the legal issues, which has been debated through the Legal Committee for numerous years. The legal gaps make it difficult for the UN to hold personnel accountable for crimes committed in the missions under its jurisdiction. The UN personnel are being currently accountable only to their countries and their legislation or being protected by the international legal statute of immunity. The lack of accountability makes the whole organization less credible and reliable. With two different groups of UN personnel the troop contributing countries ...

Marketing Communication Plan: Contemporary Marketing Communication

Marketing Communication Tools
Advertising
Advertising is a typical component of the communication mix for many businesses. It encompasses a variety of messages that the business will deliver using a particular medium to reach a targeted audience; the medium is usually paid for (Kelly, Lawlor & O’Donhue, 2005). This method would be effective for the introduction of the Samsung S6 product into the Irish market as it would inform the targeted customers of the availability of the brand in their location. Advertisements are usually made on radio or television stations, print media as well as through website placement (Fill, 2013). ...

Background

Karen Millen (KM) is an English-born organization, which prides itself on individual design for each of the collection pieces and hand-crafted by Karen Miller designers in their home atelier. This proposition delivers unique customer experience, superior quality and attention to detail. The Brand positions itself as an affordable luxury fashion, present in 65 countries across six continents and operating two of its flagstone in New York and London (KM, 2016).
KM felt the impact of the international economic crisis and its recent demerger from Aurora Group along with the toughening competition in the sector, going through significant financial challenges ...

Introduction

Costa Coffee is a multinational coffee company, founded in 1971 and headquartered in Dunstable, Bedfordshire. Founded by Costa family, the company started as a wholesale operation, working with specialist Italian Coffee shops. In 1995, the organization was acquired by Whitbread, who adopted very aggressive growth strategy, expanding the physical operation of Costa Coffee to over 2,800 shops across 30 countries. With over 1700 stores in the United Kingdom account for a major part of the total revenue of the company. Costa Coffee employs over 45,000 people and serves 25 million customers annually.
Costa Coffee operations are complex, ...

Video and Computer Games Industry

Organizations rely on environmental scanning to carefully monitor their internal and external environments with the aim of detecting opportunities and threats that may have a bearing on their current and future plans. Changes in technology have contributed to increased dynamics in the video and computer games industry, and companies have been forced to transform and adapt so as to stay competitive. Enterprises focusing on the retailing of DVD/CD/Computer games have been affected by the advent of competition especially from companies utilizing digital platforms to provide video and computer games to their clients (Grüsser et al., 291). There has ...

Introduction

An efficient transport system is the lifeblood of any successful economy. The main objective of those who are responsible for its governance is to ensure that transport plays complete part in the achievement of the stated and agreed social and economic outcomes. In this paper, we will be discussing the key elements of the transport governance structure for Canada.
This paper describes transport governance and ownership from a geographical standpoint. It sets out the results of introductory work on the current structures as well as the potential options possible for future arrangements . It is important to understand the role ...

Nursing:

Introduction
Every so often, it is increasingly becoming important to reset and re-envision what a sustainable, prosperous future might look. This article seeks not only to highlight the importance of sustainability but also point to the various efforts taken by regions in the recent past to become more sustainable. Throughout the world, studies show that the ecological footprints of urban areas are one of the heavy contributors to the un-sustainability of the Earth (Greinetz, 2014). Despite this, cities continue to become, the primary human living space. Over half (50%) of the world’s population lives in urban areas. This ...

In order to optimize company’s performance, numerous external factors should be identified, understood and analyzed. PESTEL analysis helps to perform this task by providing framework, by which external factors are divided to Political, Economic, Social, Technological, Environmental and Legal. Identification and analysis of these factors helps to plan an effective strategy and minimize planning errors (Pestle Analysis, 2014).
In order to maximize PESTLE Analysis benefit, it should be performed regularly. The impact of some external factors can have severe influence and the PESTLE analysis is useful for clarification why change is required and find out possible options. This ...

Introduction

The increasing convergence of global businesses across geographies has made human capital and service exchanges commonplace. By moving across physical and virtual (i.e. web) boundaries, cross-cultural encounters become increasingly a necessary requirement for effective work experiences locally and globally. This emphasis on cross-cultural competence in current business ecosystem is made more necessary in financial service industry. Indeed, of all cross-border services, financial activities are probably one most sensitive to global influence. Notably, by exchanging services via banking-based and non-banking financial systems, influence of not only provided services but also of people offering such services is well embedded in day-to-day ...