Why is technology so difficult to implement and manage?
Essay - 8 pages - Economy general
No one can deny the impact of technology as a source of competitive advantage for a firm. The introduction of a new technology or the development and the commercialization of a new product/ service are due to increase business benefits: it allows costs savings, improves the productivity...
African Religion and Vodoo
Tutorials/exercises - 5 pages - Philosophy
For more than two hundred years the Haitian religion commonly referred to as voodoo has continued to intrigue, excite, and scare Americans. In a recent Hollywood blockbuster, “The Skeleton Key” starring Kate Hudson, a small New Orleans family is terrorized by a menacing duo of voodoo...
The CCR5-Delta 32 Genetic Mutation and Human Evolution - published: 27/11/2007
Essay - 2 pages - Biology
Genetic mutations are not uncommon. They can happen for a variety of reasons and have a variety of effects. Those with negative effects are weeded out by natural selection, and those with positive effects prevail and are accumulated due to natural selection. These mutations can be caused by a...
The CCR5-Delta 32 Genetic Mutation and Human Evolution
Tutorials/exercises - 2 pages - International relations
Genetic mutations are not uncommon. They can happen for a variety of reasons and have a variety of effects. Those with negative effects are weeded out by natural selection, and those with positive effects prevail and are accumulated due to natural selection. These mutations can be caused by a...
Limited Options for Working Class Citizens Prompts Joining of the Military
Book review - 3 pages - Sociology & social sciences
“Military Mirrors Working-Class America” (2003) discusses the social makeup of the military servicemen enlisted in America. The authors, David M. Halbfinger and Steven A. Holmes (2003) point out that the majority of the American military is made up of low-to-middle class citizens. The...
The Colonization and Independence of South Africa and Kenya
Essay - 3 pages - Modern history
Independence has been a struggle in the African continent since the first days of colonization. Africa has been territorialized since the days of Jesus, but was not heavily colonized until the Scramble for Africa. The Scramble, which took place during the late 1800s, involved several European...
Alternative Vs Traditional School Calendar In The United States
Essay - 3 pages - Educational studies
There is an increasing popularity in year-round school programs that are seen as alternatives to the traditional ten-month school calendar. This alternative was seen as necessary in order to match the educational superiority of economically leading countries such as Japan which have longer school...
The advantages and disadvantages of unionization of the modern labor force
Essay - 7 pages - Human resources
Throughout the course of the twentieth century the labor movement in the United States has taken a number of twists and turns. From unionization during the period of industrialization to the decline of the union and the literal demise of the labor movement in the 1980s and 90s, the American labor...
Community festivals and events - Their role in raising awareness, generating pride and fostering a sense of belonging within socially isolated areas
Essay - 5 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Phillip Kotler's traditional definition of a product (1997) includes anything that can be offered to a market that might satisfy a demand. This large definition embraces goods, services, retail stores, persons, ideas and also places. Place marketing usually concerns countries, regions and big...
International economics: The World Trade Organization
Thesis - 9 pages - Economy general
Pascal Lamy, General Director of the WTO recently said that “negotiations towards a conclusion to the Doha Trade Round are 70% complete”. Indeed, the WTO trade talks have not been efficient over the last few years. Lowering agricultural and industrial tariffs, reducing subsidies in...
Internet banking
Thesis - 24 pages - Finance
This project deals with the origin of Internet and the World Wide Web. It also emphasizes on the development of e-commerce and with it the development of Internet banking. We have seen how traditional banking was done and how the Internet has revolutionized banking. We have also dealt with the...
Capital budgeting: India
Case study - 35 pages - Economy general
An efficient allocation of capital is the most important financial function in modern times. It involves decision to commit firm's funds to long-term assets. Such decisions are tend to determine the value of company/firm by influencing its growth, profitability & risk. Investment decisions...
Mutual fund as an investment option at Angel Booking Ltd
Case study - 53 pages - Finance
Let me advocate that the Indian economy is an economic giant in all of Asia. This development has taken place due to the growth in the financial system. This financial system provides the background to various investors regarding varied options to invest. Thus, development of the economy depends...
A study into the retail industry of India and China
Tutorials/exercises - 58 pages - Business strategy
Retailing is the final step in the distribution of merchandise - the last link in the Supply Chain - connecting the bulk producers of commodities to the final consumers. Retailing covers diverse products such as foot apparels, consumer goods, financial services and leisure. A retailer,...
Tata AIG Life Insurance Co. Ltd: Market mapping and research for group pensions products
Case study - 19 pages - Services marketing
Due to the advancement made by mankind in the fields of science and medicine, life expectation has been increasing at a steady rate, and today one can expect to have a longer life span than the earlier generations. For people, this increase means a longer retirement life, which would mean they...
Customer-buying behavior focusing on market segmentation in the insurance sector
Thesis - 19 pages - Services marketing
Insurance is in a manner of speaking the last frontier in the financial sector to open. It is also a sector, which leads to benefits across the full spectrum, from the individual who now have wider choices, to the economy, which see increased savings, to the infrastructure sector, which...
Market share strategy to getting company benefit
Thesis - 14 pages - Business strategy
Companies in the era of growing globalization, need to rethink the mission of business and marketing strategies they were critical. Currently the company is not engaged in market competition with the already known and have the option, or a customer that is stable, but in the war between the...
A detailed look at brand management
Dissertation - 53 pages - Management
Marketers are now finding it extremely difficult to create new brands. The brand building costs tend to be very high. At the same time the developments at the demand side are creating pressures on marketers to fine tune their offerings as per unique needs of target customs. In order to cope with...
Export procedures and documentation in India
Tutorials/exercises - 74 pages - Government finance
India has a mission to capture 2% of the global share of trade by 2010, as compared to the present level of less than 1%. Export is one of the lucrative business activities in India. The government also provides various promotional schemes to the exporters for earning valuable foreign exchange...
Network security on Bluetooth
Essay - 5 pages - Electronics, mechanics, engineering & technology
Wireless communications offer organizations and users many benefits such as portability and flexibility, increased productivity, and lower installation costs. Wireless local area network (WLAN) devices, for instance, allow users to move their laptops from place to place within their...
Employee welfare measures taken in the Indian South Central Railway
Dissertation - 44 pages - Human resources
Human Resource Management is one of the most complex and challenging fields of management. It deals with the ‘People Dimension' in management. Human Resources play a very important role in the development of the business. They constitute the organization at all levels and are regarded as a...
Globalization's winners and losers
Thesis - 3 pages - Economy general
Globalization has been good to North Americans over the past few decades. As Fishlow and Parker argue, “Television sets, microwaves, automobiles, and computers have become less expensive and more reliable,” a reality that speaks to the greater fact that our collective quality of life...
Career endeavors: A look at a career in logistics
Case study - 5 pages - Logistics
This report will include several aspects of a logistics career field in an appealing approach. First an introductory paragraph labeled Art Teacher to Logistics Major will explain the reasoning for my writing. Following that, the next header, History of Logistics, is self explanatory. Who You Need...
A look at Rentier states
Thesis - 6 pages - Government finance
When I think of rentier states I am reminded of a time in the early 1970s with Richard Nixon invited Johnny Cash to the White House, provided that the sing the right-wing satire, “Welfare Cadillac.” Claiming he did not know the words, Cash instead sang the “Ballad of Ira...
Managing Events for Hospitality and Tourism - Taste of London
Case study - 12 pages - Management
Taste of London is an annual culinary event with multilateral issues. Commercial, political, economic, and cultural, are all dimensions that characterize this event. A voluntarist spirit emerges from this event, sponsored by both major brands in the food industry, and subsidized by local...
Running header: Riordan benchmarking
Thesis - 11 pages - Business strategy
Riordan Manufacturing faced several issues but none that are uncommon in any growing organization going through a transitional period. By simply looking at companies such these General Motors and Wal-mart, Royal Bank of Scotland and Goodyear, Hudson Highland Group (Hudson Employee Index) and...
The strategy of investment and development of the French companies in Poland
Dissertation - 75 pages - Business strategy
This paper deals with the strategy of investment and development of the French companies in Poland. In a first part, the author discusses the theory of Foreign Direct Investment, more commonly called FDI: its different types and their alternatives, their motives, benefits and risks. In the...
The Concept of Employee Turnover
Dissertation - 8 pages - Human resources
The definition of employee turnover is divided into a broad sense and a narrow sense. Price (1977) points out that employee turnover is a change in the form of an individual as a member of an organization, including the inflow and outflow of employees, promotion and transfer in the scope of...
An overview of experiential marketing
Thesis - 6 pages - Services marketing
When I look back on my day, I'm amazed at the range of emotions I have gone through, from depression to indifference to ecstasy. Every minute has been an experience - sometimes pleasant, sometimes unpleasant, and then there are those experiences…that I would give anything to relive. Apart...
Analyzing outsourcing: Advantages and disadvantages
Thesis - 23 pages - Business strategy
The financial crisis has been spreading across the globe. Companies have been using their best strategy to survive and stay off the competition. With the expenses and costs on the rise and growing pressure from competition to keep the prices low, companies believe that outsourcing is the only...
