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Business Strategies for Difficult Trading Conditions

actively add value to the product/service being produced (Porter, 1985). The reduction of cost should not be achieved at the cost ...

C-TPAT & ISO 9000 - Global Value Chain

has added another dimension to the process in that companies are now transporting materials and products across geographic borders...

Balance of Philosophy and Nursing Values

not money" (Collings, 1997; p. 52). The sentiment was true long before the 1980 survey, and its persistence over time likely woul...

What Is Quick Response Manufacturing and How Should It Be Implemented?

efficiency this is one which is particularly suited to environments where manufacturing takes place at low volume levels and where...

The Potential Acquisition of Nicholson

the broad appeal also helps to create stability. The last requirement for whether or not an acquisition should go ahead is with th...

High Performance Work Systems

the organizations income and employee pay. Research on these companies is very positive. Results that have been observed include...

Financial Analysis of Horizon Line

Figure 2 shows the revenue, operating profit and net profit margin. All figures here, and in this paper are quoted in millions of ...

Managers and Work Relationships

to see the world from the clients perspective as if it were their own, but still retaining the as if quality. This is an older def...

Changes in Understanding of the City

and industrial in both appearance and flavor, though a commentator notes that "it is a complex and visually stimulating structure"...

Present and Future Value Questions

8 570,572,130 22,822,885 593,395,015 9 593,395,015 23,735,801 617,130,815 10 617,130,815 24,685,233 641,816,048 11 641,816,048 25,...

Did Fair Value Accounting Contribute to the Financial Crisis?

In 2007/8 there was the start of a global recession, which has also been referred to as the credit crunch. The writer looks at the...

Ethics In Management

study from the Institute of Business Ethics revealed: "the ethical companies outperformed the others in four of the five years" (V...

Simon Starling, One Ton II/An Art Report

series refer to the fact that it took a ton of platinum ore, involving considerable human effort and the resulting blight on the l...

How Psychologists Integrate The Study Of Human Development With Theories In Planning For Clients

and in different stages; as such, adolescents are not treated with the same corrective methods as their adult counterparts are bec...

Personal Definition Of Video Games

methods of book reading; given the multitude of students who have at least some level or type of learning and/or attention disorde...

Easton Bell Inc., Dealing With Forgiven Currency Exchange Rate Risks

are able to manage the supply chain to obtain lower prices on the goods that they sell. A master of this has been Nike with the ou...

Forecasting for a Fast Food Outlet

and ice creams sold in the summer, this looks at the trends rather than just the past performance. Regression analysis takes th...

Randy Pausch's "The Last Lecture" - Experience And Failure

have to offer (Pausch et al, 2008, p. 149). Risks are not a thing to avoid in Pauschs (2008) philosophy; in fact, taking risks i...

How to Use Net Present Value (NPV)

The calculation will look like this however, although we are told there are savings, which we will treat as revenues, of 100,000 a...

Approaches To Environmental Protection

The 7 page paper looks at the approaches to environmental protection. The first part of the paper discusses the latest environment...

Medieval Weapons And Siege Engines: England

axes and spears inevitably provided close proximity to ones target. Swords were particularly coveted by the Saxons who estimated ...

Possible Benefits Of Video Games On Academics & Academic Studies

game makes it obvious how this long-considered time wasting, socially depriving commodity be put to use for its beneficial propert...

Computer Assisted Design as a Tool in Organizational Communication

an excellent tool which free the architect/artist/creator a broader area of time and space to develop an appropriate solution to a...

Budgeting as a Tool to Manage Resources

slightly different perspective control and use of resources is linked. It may be argued that an in effective budget the planning w...

Gulliver/His Cultural Tools

voyage, he saves the Lilliputian emperors palace from certain destruction by urinating on it in order to put out a fire that th...

Managerial Process Management Tools

The four functions that Mintzberg described decades ago when building on the work of Henri Fayol continue to be applicable today, ...

Forwards and Other Financial Tools

the company will no longer be exposed to a potential fall ion the exchange rate which would mean that the company would gain less ...

Speech Recognition as a Tool for Human and Computer Interaction

were made in the 1950s, in fact. Bell Labs, for example, developed the capability within the telephone industry to recognize spok...

Type One Diabetes Screening Tool

This research paper reports on the development of a revised, validated screen tool for disorder eating among type one diabetes mel...

Using Facebook, Twitter, and Other Tools at Work

First Amendments rights for free speech seem to always be in the news. There are cases when this issue is confusing-exactly what i...