Essays on Makeover

5. Channel Performance Assessment Puma has established strong distribution networks through the multibrand store front and Puma stores which are located in major cities across the world, from which customers can access its products in over 120 countries around the world. Wholesale is the main distribution channel for Puma. Puma is focused on expanding its distribution channels even more by opening more retail outlets throughout the world. The distribution channels have not achieved the full sales potential as evidenced by the drop of Puma’s currency in 2013. The omnichannel for instance has had some challenges and conflicts that ...

Leadership vision

Effective leadership is a necessity for every company, enterprise, or organization that wishes to prosper. Mainly, it involves being in charge of the other members. Although trait leadership theory suggests otherwise, I believe that leadership is a skill and one can learn it at any level. Leaders are not perfect individuals; instead, they are people who have committed to be responsible for a team. A leadership development plan (LDP) is an outline that enables an individual to achieve his or her leadership goals. The plan comprises various elements will help a person to accomplish his or her leadership desires ...

Trust Makeover is meant to boost declining morale and rebuild broken confidence. By rebuilding trust, role players can reverse a downward pattern of ineffective communication, declining performance and cynical behavior. Trust rebuilding can be achieved by developing specific vignettes, role swaps and frequent meetings. Trust Makeover has practical learning outcomes: (1) To enhance inter-group performance (Objective One), (2) To enable more effective work group management (Objective Two), and (3) To enact quick response methods for addressing confidence grievances (Objective Three). Objective One can be performed by sharing information more frequently between group members. Objective Two can be performed by ...

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Introduction

The medical profession is continuous improving. The need to make modifications in existing system has more to do with trying to fit in new and significant findings into the current practice. One area of the medical profession that constantly needs updating is the medical coding system. About the third quarter of 2015 there was major change in the medical coding billing system which was called ICD-10 . This paper would like to review the article which discusses these changes and the progress and drawbacks that ICD-10 has been able to deliver.

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Introduction and project description

Bench Fitness Centers (BFC) is a chain of eight fitness centers located separately in one area. Majority of the centers operate using similar equipment and also provide similar services. Some centers operate using different equipment and have specialized trainers (case study). The challenges facing BFC include an inefficient website that does not attract as many customers as they would wish, networking of computers and internet accessibility by customers, and client tracking. Having identified the challenges Bench Fitness Centers is facing in Information Technology (IT), a website makeover has been recommended, the creation of a network as well as the updating of computers. ...

Introduction

Strategic management involves all the actions and decisions made by managers that affect long term performance of organizations through creating programs. It includes a set of those managerial decisions from environmental scanning; both internal and external, strategy formulation, strategy implementation, and evaluation and control. This video Changing Education Paradigms evaluates the challenges that mainstream public education careers in the modern world. It looks at the weaknesses and threats facing the system and why it is not working. Further, it demonstrates that the content taught to children in schools was orchestrated in an industrial area and thus not fit for ...

Integrated Marketing Communication: Easy Jet

Executive Summary UK airline industry is one of the most advanced in the global market with a number of the globally leading operators. The industry is highly competitive and marked by local and international airlines which accounts for the creation of more than 220,000 jobs. (BATA, 2014) However, the market is subject to several factors including technological advance, economic factors variation, social preferences and lifestyles changes, political factors, environmental regulations as well as legal requirements. Those factors set industry trends and determine the industry dynamics including increasing competition, operation’s efficiency and wider market reach as well as ...

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Representation is something that is past but remembered or perceived as something that is absent but signified. On the other hand, power refers to the capability of having control over someone or something. It is through representation that human beings give power to others. Human beings often observe certain representations as natural; since these representations have been cemented overtime to seem natural to us. Power production is through representations. Those groups who create meaning employ the power over others. A case study to help understand the power and representations is Ringrose and Walkerdine's article on 'Regulating the Abject'. The ...

Undoubtedly, in today’s society mass media has integrated itself as one of the staples in the lives of people. Due to its influence to people, it has helped shaped the norms practiced and known by society. It is unfair to say that media has no positive impact to the world. However, it can not be argued that it has reinforced a number of societal issues. One of the issues includes Gender and the continuing promulgation of stereotypes. With the use of media many gender stereotypes are implanted in the minds of people. It has helped in the dictation of ...

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Organizations operating in the same industry might possess extremely varied performances. Such variation in performance is essentially a result of their resources as well as their capabilities. In order for creating a sustained competitive advantage, organizations must possess internal resource capabilities that comprise of precise features like significance, uniqueness, and imitability, among others. Such internal resources and capabilities might be either financial resources or physical, organizational, and human resources. With respect to Harlequin Enterprises, the company has been into business since the year 1964. Considering such a long history of existence, it is ...

- What is the difference between a fad and an enduring product? A fad is a trend that is wildly popular, but short-lived. Bergman (n.d) defines a fad as “irrational imitative behavior”. The Hula Hoop, which gained massive popularity sometime after its commercialization, is a good example of a fad. According to Talwar (2013), cultural, social, individual, and psychological reasons influence consumer purchases. The combination of these issues fuels fads. There are several characteristics of a fad. A fad has descriptive and “career” traits (Bergman n.d). In terms of descriptive traits, a fad should be homogenous, novel, and odd (Bergman, n.d). In terms of the ...

Marketing Strategy

Easy Jet, a low cost airline, has shifted its marketing strategy from addressing the rational needs of its customers which is mainly cost to also focusing on their emotional needs through a vibrant and emotional campaign. Using taglines such as ‘Europe by Easy Jet’ and ‘Where are you going?’ the company integrates the pleasure and joy that its customers will get when travelling. E-mail marketing has also been used to reach out to customers and it has also launched the Easy Jet application for smartphones. (Smith, 2012; Taylor, 2013) Emirates is more expensive than Easy Jet, its marketing strategy has ...

The major problems that are faced by Electrolux are as follows:

- The company was incurring spiraling costs and was losing out in competition to cheaper products from Asia and Eastern Europe. - The company was facing fierce competition in the US from where it got its major profits till now. - Electrolux was facing an innovation crisis as most of its products were considered old-fashioned and untrendy. The realistic assumptions that can be made about the case are that Electrolux is the second largest home appliances manufacturer in the world and recently had been facing major challenges. After facing problems due to tough competition and substitute ...

Medical technology has increased rapidly in the past few decades and it is now a challenge for the human beings to understand and evaluate it realistically. Medicalization is to understand and treat a medical problem or a disorder, and it follows a theory that some miracles happen because of the medicine. Elizabeth Grosz in her article “Intolerable Ambiguity: Freaks as/at the Limit” refers Siamese twins as freaks who are sufferers of social ostracism. Medicalization is clearly depicted in the article with an example of Siamese twins, who were examined by various doctors to separate them, and finally they decided not to separate them ...

Metropolis (1927) Summary The movie is set in a city, Metropolis, where the society is made up of two inflexible groups; the thinkers and the workers. The thinkers or the planners who live a luxurious life on the surface of the earth while the workers live underground, beneath the planners. The city is under John Fredersen. The good-looking and evangelical character Maria takes responsibility of the cause of the workers. Maria warns the workers against forming a revolution but rather wait for a mediator to unite the two groups, Freder, a son to Fredersen. Freder is inspired by his passion for Maria and ...

Rabbit Proof Fence, a film that moves the souls of human beings is a real life heartbreaking story of three little girls set in the 1930’s that shows how the aborigine children were taken against their will from Jigalong and made to work for white families as servants or maids. Rabbit-Proof Fence provides a fundamental illustration of Australian aboriginal children and women as victims, and the government viewing them as passive with no individuality or culture. The concept of empowerment in culture is well defined by Banet-Weiser (Reading Popular Culture through Feminism, May 28 2013) where they argue that the emphasis ...

Money spend without proper planning is money wasted, therefore, it is inevitable for a personal financial plan, which acts as a blueprint to spending, Ramsey (2007). The purpose of personal financial plan is to direct finances to the three main categories of personal objectives, which are spending, savings and investing. Sources of personal incomes include mainly career remunerations and incomes from personal business incentives. Personal income is highly determined by the career line of an individual, competitive careers result into more personal income. Personal financial choices also play a role in determining the amount of income netted by an individual; this is ...

The Individuality or ‘Plastic Sheen’

The Individuality or ‘Plastic Sheen’ The whole concept of ‘beauty lies in the eye of beholder’ is not applicable everywhere. Beauty first of all lies in the belief and conscience of an individual which is poignantly reflected through demeanour. And then, the beholder too finds beauty in that individual. When one begins to read The Eye of the Beholder by Grace Suh, it is inevitable to occur in mind that how such an author can fall for the feeling of ‘stark ugliness’ about herself (par. 2). But, then through her realisation of what she really is rather than ...

Post-feminism is a very complicated term in the sense that it encompasses contradictory and pluralistic discourse within our modern society. Both authors Portwood-Stacer and Arthurs focus on the relationship between feminism and consuming behaviors that are depicted through television. Portwood-Stacer argues reality makeover television both reflects and perpetuates the ideology that individualist consumption is an important means of feminine empowerment. (Portwood-Stacer 196) Both authors also agree on the fact that the physical appearances are often emphasized as an empowering device for women in the television shows and for audience viewing the show. According to The Oxford English Dictionary, Post Feminism ...

Popular Teen Magazines and Their possible effect on adolescent development

Introduction

Teen magazines have been in existence for decades. However, the evolution of the content in the magazines is subject to debate. Currently, teen magazines have a wide scope, covering issues like sexuality, dating, body image, clothing, physical appearance, pregnancy, careers, fashion, exercises and work. All these are issues related to or affecting teenagers in the world today. The presentation of these issues in the magazines has however raised eyebrows on how it impacts on the teenagers. The aim of the magazines is to inform and educate the young individuals on how to become all round individuals depending on the ...

Introduction

The media is a powerful force in today’s world. The media has the ability to persuade people to think in a certain manner. Businesses and huge corporations have had their reputation marred by adverse media reports. The media has been able to have such a huge influence as families spend majority of their time glued to television sets. People have mobile phones where they browse and see the latest news in online forums. Young people spend hours on the internet reading about celebrities and watching the latest movie reviews. The media is able to influence the culture of a country. It can ...