Essays on Abreast

A private club refers to any type of a club that is limited to private members thereby implying that it is not open to the public. It brings out the difference between a private club and a restaurant where the restaurant is open to anyone who can pay the menu process while the club is limited to private members (Davis et al. 34). The customer base is comprised of the registered members in addition to guests or new members, who have been accepted by board members after being recommended or sponsored by an existing member of the club. After ...

The Importance of Technology

Organizations must remain competitive in order to stay in business. Technology is undeniable as it is present in every facet of life as it allows organizations to communicate with customers one to one via social media thereby not falling behind with what is needed in the market relative to products/services, allows companies to stay relevant by staying abreast of new technology, and allows an organization to take advantage of business opportunities that technology can allow. Technology allows an organization to be functional which means being more competitive ("The Importance of Keeping Up with Technology in the Workplace - Axis ...

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Coca-Cola Vision and Analysis 5 Coca Cola’s Values and Analysis 7 Alignment of Coca Cola’s Mission, Vision, Values, & Goals with Stakeholder’s Interests 8 Recommended Changes 8 Conclusion 9

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Executive Summary The purpose of this report is to discuss a strategic management process via critical analysis and evaluation of the Coca Cola Company’s vision, mission, goals, and objectives of the organization. From a review of each statement, a determination will be made concerning the need for improvement or if the organization is on target and simply needs to make an adjustment relative to the ...

Many a time have people heard about politicians who do plenty of talking. However, verbal rhetoric is only meaningful when backed by actual deeds aimed at the improvement of what politicians oversee, which is society and its welfare. The incumbent Senate President of New Jersey, Stephen Sweeney is one of such politicians who may be said to utilize his legislative authority to its limit. He has showed his aptitude in areas, such as education, property ownership, taxation, healthcare, and the protection of different social categories. Of course, as with other prominent politicians, however renowned, Sweeney has made some controversial ...

Sustainability of globalization and environment pose real challenges to management of business institutions. The aspect of keeping abreast of all the changes in the socio-cultural trends, economic, technological and political-legal in order to make informed decisions is an uphill task. Therefore, theories have been developed to enable Business Corporations address this challenge. Managers of various institutions or organizations can adapt the most suitable theory in the day to day learning of the organizations so as to enable it not to be extinct (Wheelen & Hunger, 2011). The population ecology theory proposes that once a company undergoes successful establishment within a ...

Personal Statement

I have chosen biology as my field of study, in order to facilitate my career objective to be an entrepreneur in the field of medical services – specifically in-vitro-fertilization (IVF) and sperm banking. This Bachelor of Sciences degree in biology will provide me with the necessary qualification and background to establish myself as a laboratory director in any of the countries I have short-listed as possible locations to start my own business. Most of those are either in South America (Argentina, Chile, and Colombia) or in Eastern Europe (Bulgaria, Romania, and Russia). As Russia is my home country, that could ...

The Ongoing Story of Starbucks Turn Around:

2014 Leadership Change The Ongoing Story of Starbucks Turn Around: 2014 Leadership Change

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In 2014 Starbucks announced major organizational changes starting a new leadership structure as part of its ongoing turn around focus from 2008. The new leadership restructure intended providing leverage in its operations and assets as well as gaining maximum benefit from the consumer, retail, digital, and mobile shifts currently underway in the global marketplace. Review of the past success of Starbucks’ organizational leadership change in 2008 provides the underpinnings of the direction of this next major change. The past success and the focus of the ...

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The case study by Rebecca Henderson and Cate Reavis, entitled What’s Driving Porsche? Is an investigation into the current realities for the Porsche car company (Henderson and Reavis, 2009). Porsche has made some significant changes in recent years, ceding control and gaining control within certain parts of the automotive industry; the purpose of this report is to give a thorough discussion of the changes that are occurring in the automotive industry, particularly the luxury automotive industry, and examine how these events have affected Porsche as a company and as a brand. The transitory nature of the automotive industry branding tactics have ...

Sales Job #1

Company/Employer: Unishippers Industry: Transportation Services Job posting Website: http://sales-jobs.theladders.com/

Summary of Job Description:

Unishippers is a leading global logistics firm. The employer needs an experienced logistics sales person whose job will entail developing and closing corporate logistics accounts in Atlanta market. The successful candidate will be provided with a health insurance policy, laptop and cell phone.

Job Requirements:

The eligible applicant should have a minimum of two years experience outside business to business sales experience and a proven track record. The applicant should be a holder of a four year degree and prior experience in shipping/logistics will be an added advantage.

Job Functions and Responsibilities:

The successful candidate will be required to develop ...

International Human Resources Management

Globally, the processes that are associated in recruitment and selection are influenced by a number of factors. It needs to be highlighted that in the process of international recruitment and selection, a number of factors need to be taken into consideration to ensure fulfillment of two very specific important requirements. One is that the organization should be able to acquire the most effective human resources and the other is that the process itself needs to be highly effective with the least wastage of time and financial resources available at the disposal of the human resources department of an organization . Over ...

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Medical Regulatory Body

The Government, HEALTH PEOPLE2020 PROGRAM TO BE EXTENDED TO THE PRISONS In Writing Assignment 1, We looked at the health of the imprisoned in the United States jails, prisons and found that among the prisoners there are many incidences of STI’s. For instance, among the prison people there are those living with HIV/AIDS that compounds the health problems affecting the uninfected prisoners. Numerous of such individuals contract the disease before they are passed through the prison system. The inmates are therefore faced with high risks factors of contracting as well as transmitting the disease while ...

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Introduction Computer programming was first introduced in the 19th century, when Ada Lovelace programmed the analytical machine. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (2008), one in every 106 workers in the United States is a computer programmer or software engineer. (Seibel, 2009). Today programming has evolved to the level of art and science. From the sequential processing of COBOL we have come to Relational Databases and Cloud Computing. Programming today is almost completely written for the World Wide Web.

Web Programming

Web programming was first introduced in 1989 when Tim Berners-Lee attempted to create a giant HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language) ...

Productivity is the center spot for Contemporary business organizations and modern engineering companies. Thus, increasing productivity is a critical phenomenon that must be accepted by current management despite the cost the organization might incur because with increased production profits margins will inevitably rise. In addition, a rapidly changing environment like the present business environment, does require innovation to come up with new equipment that can counter the change and boost productivity. Moreover, the introduction of news devices do arm business with new techniques and capacities to adapt to the new production skills and market forces. Furthermore, employees are also empowered with ...

Introduction

The new developments in social and mainstream media have made a great contribution in the transnational cultural order as Kevin Robins puts it in his popular research work regarding the media and cultural practices in the Turkish Diaspora in Britain. Such developments have been largely witnessed in the areas of satellites, television, cable and the internet. This has, therefore, enabled the Turkish communities in the diaspora to get in touch with what is happening in their homeland on a daily basis. They can watch the news on TV, read newspapers or even get quick information on social media due to the ...

Forewords

The modern economy is undergoing tremendous changes radically in processes and structures in the society. The internationalization of markets and globalization of technologies are the orders of the modern society. Globalization also refers to products that are knowledge intensive, and implies diffusion of both marketing, and research and development on a global level. This decentralization of the structure of the economy has led to the enhanced rate of learning, evolvement of new structures of organizations, development of knowledge intensive goods and services, and strengthening of information technology, intellectual; capital, and technology fusion. All these developments emphasize the importance and role ...

Validation of Principal Efficacy Survey– Rationale for Adding New Questions to the

ABSTRACT In the process of validating principal self-efficacy connected to the corroborated Megan Tschannen-Moran Survey, important gaps in the questionnaire exist. The academic work presented here provides the essential and missing questions needing asked by principals in assessing the efficacy of his/her performance as an administrator, innovator, and advocate for quality educational practices in the 21st century. These suggested questions look at principal management abilities, consider the diversity of the demographics of public school learners and their families, professional development necessary for instructors' ability for enhancing teaching, and the critical acknowledgement educational technology. Key Words: principal, self-efficacy, ...

Starting and running a business is faced by a number of challenges right from the start up. However different business environment pose different challenge to existing and upcoming businesses. A successful business is one that as victoriously overcome the hardships of startup and operation. P.F Chang’s Bistro Restraunt enjoys the freedom of customers. It is located in sugar land in Houston, Texas. In case other restraunts venture in that market (Houston, TX), P.F Chang’s Bistro Restraunt will face a good number of challenges. Initially, keeping up with its market will pose a great difficulty. This is because other ...

Introduction

The music industry loosely known as the recording industry is comprised of individuals and entities that create and sell music to make money. The music industry has in the past decade changed significantly because of the growth experienced in the internet and digitization. Due to these changes, traditional business models and existing value chains have been disrupted. It is important to determine the effects these changes have had on the music industry. This is necessary especially if one hopes to start a business in the music industry. Consequently, a situational is necessary in order to stay abreast with the industry dynamics ...

Executive Summary

With upwards of $48,077 in 2012 revenues and more than $862 in operating profits during the same period, Amazon.com is easily a major player in the online retail industry. The company’s internet operations, coupled by the wide range of products gives Amazon.com a critical advantage in the industry. Amazon.com caters for four separate markets including sellers, content creators, enterprises and final consumers through its retail websites, which are designed to have technical capacity to handle millions. In addition, the company’s extensive online infrastructure and immense R&D resources give it a particular advantage in facilitating the Kindle product extension. ...

A Twitter Literature Review

TWEET FOR MORE THAN JUST GOSSIP Twitter is a widely recognized “microblogging” social networking site developed by Jack Dorsey and founded by him, Evan Williams and Biz Stone in 2006 through the startup company Obvious (Grossman, 2009). Use and interface is very simple with people answering the question “What are you doing?” in 140 characters or less. The site is arranged in such a way that the person can see what his/her friends (i.e. people followed by the person, termed as “following/s”) are also posting. Twitter also popularized the word and use of “hash tag”, which uses the number sign (#) ...

Pros and Cons of Continuing of an Online CEU Site

Continuing education units have gained prominence as methods for fulfilling the mandatory requirements for evidence of continued education amongst practicing nurses. The pros and cons of a website offering this method of education, http://www.nurselearning.com will be explored below. The CEUs offered at the site are cost-effective and convenient to undertake. Time and cost constrains are some of the factors that limit the ability of practicing nurses to pursue further education. CEUs provide an optimal solution to such nurses because they are easily accessible, they do not require one to travel, and they can be undertaken during one’s free ...

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Change is inevitable in organizations; thus it is imperative for firms to be prepared to experience change and make wise decisions regarding the prevailing or impending changes. Unilever UK is focused in making grand changes in attempts to stay abreast of the highly competitive industry. There are certain key drivers to these changes and they impact on the process of making decisions in the said company.

Sustainability is has become pivotal in the way organizations are required to ensure their production methods are safe to the environment. There are claims that modern industrial processes cannot be sustainable, and yet ...

Entrepreneurship Strategy

Bunting (2012) explores the business ideas that entrepreneurs can engage in. these include all kinds of businesses, ranging from small-scale entrepreneurs to large scale business. Bunting (2012) posits that the businesses that do well seek to be abreast with current technology. These can be technologies in IT, networks and partnerships. The ambition to grow and expand should have no boundaries or limits.

In going through the article, I learnt that there is more to business than just having the capital and investing it. The idea is to have a proper timing and the right strategies so that the investment can ...

Globalization has bought about great changes into the business strategies today. Unlike before, today all marketing strategies are focused at the digital world. Customers today are hooked to the online world and social networking sites are a rage. Such social networking sites offer not just connectivity to the customer but also a great marketing tool for the manufacturer. Brands are now being marketed on various social networking sites to increase sales. Right planning and proper execution have resulted in the boost of sales. But in order to promote a product/ service online, proper strategies need to be implemented. The following paper ...

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Pepsi is one of the biggest food and beverage companies in the world with $66 billion in revenues and 25.65,000 employees all over the world. PepsiCo is listed at the New York Stock Exchange. The company is also listed at the Amsterdam, Swiss, Chicago and Tokyo Stock exchange. PepsiCo’s main customers are authorized bottlers and independent distributors and retailers. PepsiCo products are available in over 200 countries, with the largest operations in North America, Mexico, and the United Kingdom. The company mainly operates in the non-alcoholic beverages and macro snacks market. They have become the largest ...

The world is slowly transforming itself into a global village environment. As such information is spreading faster than bush fire from one corner of the world to another. The business environment has gone high tech as more and more business people adopt technological means of transacting. One can carry out a transaction while in the comfort of one’s office with another person in the same position miles away thanks to developments in information technology. It is imperative therefore that business managers acquit themselves with the developments in information technology to aid them in their communication if they are to keep ...

Every commercial aircraft is fundamentally designed for safety, passenger acceptance, fuel efficiency and airport compatibility among other important features. Numerous challenges face all current passenger aircrafts, for instance the conventional wing consists of a number of moving parts which increase the weight of the plane and are difficult to adjust and maintain. The current control surfaces also increase turbulence and drag since the smooth flow of air is disrupted, and the aircraft cannot adapt to different flight stages and conditions. Design architectures such as the vertical and horizontal stabilizer surfaces increase the overall drag of the plane, for example, the ...