Strategic Analysis of Microsoft
Case study - 7 pages - Business strategy
Apart from Microsoft being the designer and developer of the Windows Operating System, the company has been known for being innovative within other sectors, especially cloud service. However, the technology industry has witnessed some considerable changes and competition over the years with...
Intelligence testing article analysis
Case study - 2 pages - Psychology
In the enduring and progressive field of the sciences, including the scientific study of the many dimensional factors of the brain, tangible, quantitative, qualitative, reliable, and verifiable data are regarded factual truth pertaining to yielded research information. Research data...
The birth date effect in children entering education systems: Is a child's self esteem compromised by being admitted overly young into the formal education system?
Thesis - 5 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The purpose of this study is to explore the possibility that admitting too young a child into formal education systems (e.g., kindergarten, elementary school) can negatively affect that child's self-esteem in later years. Although educational psychologists agree that a young child's self-esteem...
Privacy preserving distributed data mining by using tree based randomization
Thesis - 8 pages - Computer science
Due to increasing concerns related to privacy, organizations are forced to take actions to protect the privacy of individuals when revealing customers' records during data mining activities. In this paper we present a methodology that preserves statistical relationship between attributes...
Use game theory to analyze the dilemma faced by Paramount Pictures in setting the release date of Transformers 3: Dark of the Moon. In the position of Judy Witwicky, what advice would you give Paramount Pictures?
Case study - 3 pages - Film studies
In this coursework, a dilemma faced by Paramount Pictures (Paramount) about the release date of the film Transformer 3: Dark of the Moon (Transformer 3) will be analyzed, and then some advices will be given by using game theory. Paramount is one of the largest American film production studios,...
Idiosyncratic applications of data mining in E learning environments
Thesis - 5 pages - Computer science
Data Mining is a very popular and effective way of discovering new knowledge from large and complex data sets. Its benefits are its ability to gain deeper understanding of the patterns previously unseen using current available reporting capabilities. Internet education arose from...
"Nespresso, what else? " - A strategic analysis
Case study - 30 pages - Business strategy
During the 70s, Nestle anticipated a market growth of premium coffee based on the original concept of the inventor of the espresso, Luiggi Bezzera. The principle is simple: offer the finest Italian coffee directly to your home or office. Founded in 1986, Nespresso pioneered the allotted coffee...
Strategic analysis - Yahoo case study
Case study - 13 pages - Services marketing
The underlying mission of Yahoo is to “connect people to their passions, their communities, and the world's knowledge.” To ensure this, Yahoo offers a broad and deep array of products and services to create unique and differentiated user experiences and consumer insights by...
Bandwidth discovery: A demand side analysis of the bandwidth requirements of India's IT and ITES sectors
Tutorials/exercises - 45 pages - Business strategy
Frost & Sullivan is an international market-consulting firm headquartered at Palo Alto, CA and with offices across the globe. The focus of work done at Frost & Sullivan is to interact with clients, understand their requirements and use the relevant domain expertise to develop innovative growth...
Study and analysis of the impact of implementing ERP solutions on large industries
Thesis - 38 pages - Management
Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems are the most ambitious, sophisticated use of information technology (IT) by businesses to date. Managers must compare the massive investments of resources and time to be committed to an ERP implementation against the significant benefits that may be...
Concept analysis of similarity
Case study - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education
According to The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language similarity is the (a) “equivalence,” (b) “resemblance” and (c) corresponding “features” or characteristics” (2009). There are various ways of defining similarity the most common term shared is...
Analysis on the predictive capability of statistical metrics
Case study - 8 pages - Management
As the largest professional football game of the year approaches, Super Bowl 49, sports fans are inundated with team and player statistics, records, and superstitions - all in an attempt to predict how the ‘big game' will turn out. While attempting to ultimately make an inference as to who...
Challenging Underachievement in Boys: A Critical Review of Unreliable and Misinterpreted Data Collection Methods
Tutorials/exercises - 8 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Raising the achievement level of male pupils, especially disadvantaged males, has been a concern of the UK educational system from several years. Many studies have been conducted using various methods and data sources. The following paper is a critical review of "Challenging...
Analysis of software project time overrun
Tutorials/exercises - 38 pages - Business strategy
A project can be defined as a plan or proposal; a scheme or an undertaking requiring concerted effort. Software's are the programs, routines, and symbolic languages that control the functioning of the hardware and direct its operation. They are instructions for the computer. A series of...
Kanata: Adaptation and evolution in data sharing systems
Thesis - 3 pages - Computer science
The role of various elements employed in the adaptation and evolution of data systems is complex. This article elaborates a number of issues related to adaptation and changing data patterns. It includes the use of metadata. Metadata is employed in web pages and are used by search...
Analysis of Cadbury's marketing strategy
Tutorials/exercises - 18 pages - Business strategy
This paper examines the launch of Cadbury's Fuse Bar and delves into marketing strategy of Cadbury. I will analyze the chocolate market using two sources of information • Secondary data, which is using information someone already has found. For example the Cadbury website •...
Managerial economics focusing on cost and revenue analysis
Thesis - 19 pages - Economy general
Health service providers have to carefully manage the use of scarce resources while meeting a growing demand for services and rising expectations for quality. Conducting cost and revenue analysis can greatly increase a managers' understanding of the factors that affect resource use,...
Collect foreign exchange spot and forward rate data and interest rate data for two currencies: examine whether CIRP holds: Analyze and discuss the results
Essay - 4 pages - Finance
The purpose of this assignment is to analyse whether the Covered Interest Rate Parity (CIRP) holds in the relationship between two actual currencies. I decided to focus on the euro and the dollar because it is the financial instrument the most active and the most used in the world. Since the euro...
Fixed income analysis and risk management
Essay - 9 pages - Finance
As the ten OAT have the same anniversary dates, in other words the different cash-flows are paid at the same dates (25-Apr-08, 25-Apr-09, 25-Apr-10,), then we used a direct method of calculation of the spot rates, through two steps. Using a polynomial interpolation, we can recover the yield...
Strategic analysis of the company "Easyjet"
Case study - 17 pages - Services marketing
The low-cost airline companies are subject to the same safety rules and controls on airplanes than any scheduled airline. They meet all the various conventions, protocols and agreements, of European and international standards. At the national level, even though France is part of the European...
Launching of the wines of the Center-Loire in China: analysis and potential of development
Market study - 121 pages - Services marketing
In order to provide a detailed answer to our question, we conducted this study in three distinct phases. During these three phases, we have always tried to keep in mind the characteristics of BIVC and its members in order to maintain greater consistency in all our analysis and answers. We...
A study on security analysis for selecting appropriate security
Case study - 79 pages - Management
An investment refers to the commitment of funds at present, in anticipation of some positive rate of return in future. Today the spectrum of investment is indeed wide. An investor is confronted with array of investment avenues. Among all investment, investment in equity is best high proportion....
Attrition analysis
Thesis - 29 pages - Human resources
The study will analyze different aspects of attrition and managing attrition in different situations. Knowledge and people form the key factors for any company in the IT industry. The success of any IT company depends on how effectively it manages knowledge and its people. Retaining knowledge and...
Chapter VIII's analysis of 'Human Bondage' by Somerset Maugham
Book review - 4 pages - Literature
The excerpt to analyse retraces what may be considered as a part of the main body of the plot of the apprenticeship novel Of Human Bondage by the English writer Somerset Maugham. The passage I'm about to try to analyse is extracted from the 58th chapter which means that the reader is already half...
Regression analysis of effective factor on people participation in protecting, revitalizing, developing and using renewable natural resources in Ilam province from the view of users
Thesis - 9 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The purpose of this study is the regression analysis of effective factor on people participation in protecting, revitalizing, developing and using renewable natural resources in Ilam province. This study is a casual comparative and applies one sample was taken from natural resources users....
Strategic analysis of Skype
Thesis - 23 pages - Business strategy
Change in patterns of communication has become usual, whether intended for professionals or individuals. Thus, the emergence of internet telephone has revolutionized communications but was limited by traditional difficulties of its technologies. Nevertheless, the market potential of IP telephone...
Strategic analysis of the Accor group
Case study - 43 pages - Business strategy
Accor, a leading European player in the world of hospitality and tourism, was founded in 1967 by Paul Dubrule and Gerard Pelisson. Forty years down the road, the group now operates in nearly 100 countries and employs about 170,000 active employees. The Accor group offers its clients, both...
Data sheet: CARE International
Essay - 10 pages - Services marketing
CARE International focuses on the technology of 'avant-garde' and the pending the needs of consumers in respect of personal care products. CARE International is based on a simple philosophy: innovate and offer the greatest number of consumers with the most innovative and effective...
SWOT Analysis - National Society of the Prevention Cruelty to Children's Online Program
Thesis - 4 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) is one of Great Britain's largest and most financially successful charities. In many ways, when the NSPCC decided to launch a program for its donors to bank online, it was simultaneously offering too much and asking too...
Cost realism analysis
Essay - 3 pages - Economy general
Cost realism analysis is the process of evaluating the methodology by the offeror to estimate the proposed cost and is done by using information other than cost or pricing data (Cole, 2001). This technique is useful in selecting the offeror that best fits the awards of the contract....
