Digital Workplace Transformation: Reinventing Communication - Penny Swift (2023) - Organizational Communication in the News
Book review - 4 pages - Medias&communication marketing
In today's dynamic environment, digitization has emerged as the basis of business transactions across the globe. The essay will further explore the dimensions underpinning the move towards digital transformation, their importance, and soft changes in culture that need to be adjusted to pave...
Negotiating and Managing Supplier Relationships
Presentation - 3 pages - Management
In preparing for a negotiation meeting with a prospective supplier, meticulous research and analysis are indispensable. Firstly, I will investigate the supplier's background to obtain the details necessary to examine the history, size, financial health, reputation, and the most recent...
Improving the impact of social marketing
Presentation - 16 pages - Social, moral & civic education
This presentation will start with a few statistics on health, safety, environment and the community. It will then move onto some social marketing events before talking about some of the agencies involved in social marketing. It will then talk of the major approaches and go into the planning...
Collaboration in Emergency Management
Essay - 2 pages - Management
Inclusion is one important element of the concept of collaboration in emergency management. Inclusion involves bringing together all relevant stakeholders directly or indirectly affected by the impacts of a disaster and making them part of the overall emergency management process. Thus, emergency...
ISO Standards and Excellence : Why should an organization analyze quality and excellence?
Essay - 3 pages - Business strategy
Other goals achieved through the careful consideration and analysis of the financial situations which then allow the company to be able to evaluate and determine the risks and in so doing be able to employ the knowledge acquired in management tools as well as using the necessary techniques in...
How six sigma impacts the development of operations in organizations
Essay - 7 pages - Business strategy
A precursory overview of the modern organization demonstrates that there are a host of inefficiencies in various departments and areas. Although most organizations accept some degree of inefficiency as part of the operational process, the reality is that there are notable steps that can be taken...
Employee training
Dissertation - 46 pages - Human resources
Every organization needs to have well trained an experience people to perform the activities that have to be done. If the current or potential job occupants and meet this requirement, training is not important. But when this is not case, it is necessary to raise the skill levels and increase the...
A study on customer relationship management
Tutorials/exercises - 58 pages - Business strategy
Customer Relationship Management (CRM) is one of those magnificent concepts that swept the business world in the 1990's with the promise of forever changing the way businesses, small and large, interacted with their customer bases. In the short term, however, it proved to be an unwieldy process...
All you wanted to know about Six Sigma
Tutorials/exercises - 39 pages - Business strategy
Six Sigma can be used to create a brand new business process from ground up. Six Sigma strives for perfection. It allows for only 3.4 defects per million opportunities for each product or service transaction. Six Sigma relies heavily on statistical techniques to reduce defects and measure...
A critical analysis of issues in nursing management
Case study - 12 pages - Medical studies
As nurses strive to be recognized as professionals, the expansion and application of evidence in nursing is progressively becoming vital within the nursing discipline (Achterberg et al 2006). Patients have the right to expect the best care that will promote their well-being. This essay will...
Kaizen: The key to Japan's competitive success
Thesis - 9 pages - Management
The term "Kaizen" is a combination of two Japanese words "Kai" meaning "change" and "zen" meaning "good," and evolves from the ancient Japanese philosophy of actions that lead to sustainable benefits for the society as a whole rather than one particular individual, or actions that benefit...
The Impact of the Demand Planning Process on the Company's Performance
Case study - 17 pages - Business strategy
All manufacturing organizations across all industries face a common problem of balancing supply and demand. This problem is further accentuated in the context of fast-moving consumer goods organizations due to the high demand for product availability. With much research on solving this problem,...
An examination of the quality of work
Tutorials/exercises - 39 pages - Human resources
Quality of work life is a process of organizations, which enables its members at all levels to participate actively and efficiently in shaping the organizations environment and out comes. It is a value based process which is aimed towards meeting the twin goals of enhanced effectiveness of...
The importance of total quality management
Thesis - 22 pages - Management
Total Quality Management is a management approach that originated in the 1950's and has steadily become more popular since the early 1980's. Total Quality is a description of the culture, attitude and organization of a company that strives to provide customers with products and services...
A study on quality circle
Thesis - 23 pages - Business strategy
The term quality circles refers to small groups of line employees (usually ten or fewer) who meet periodically outside of regular work hours to discuss ways to improve the quality of products they produce and the efficiency and effectiveness of the production processes they oversee. Although...
Information technology as an enabler of sales and distribution
Dissertation - 47 pages - Business strategy
A competitive edge in sales and distribution network provides much needed muscle to the companies to compete in market place as has been epitomized by companies like HLL, Marico & ITC etc. Use of IT in sales and distribution promises to provide a consistent source of competitive advantage that...
Home depot
Thesis - 17 pages - Services marketing
Home Depot is the largest retailer in the home improvement industry with more than 2,100 stores. The company was started in 1979 by Bernie Marcus and Arthur Blank. Within these stores, they offer a large array of home improvement products. By selling at continually low prices, they...
Human resources development initiatives for achieving individual and organizational goals: National Institute of Rural Development India
Dissertation - 44 pages - Human resources
Human Resource Development is very crucial for achieving higher levels of socio-economic development in both developed and developing countries. The value of Human Development Index (HDI) is much higher in the countries with higher levels of investment in HRD and vice versa. The less populous...
Conceptualization and operationalization of process management from multiple theoretical lens (A hybrid approach)
Thesis - 8 pages - Management
We cast doubt on the adequacy of current conceptualization and operationalization of process management (PM) based on quality management (QM), particularly when PM is considered as comprising of only control and incremental improvement practices. Furthermore, the dimensionality of PM is...
Determinants of the maintenance of ISO 9000 certification in Thailand: An empirical study
Thesis - 8 pages - Business strategy
Since 1993 to 2004, there have been 5,833 organizations in Thailand registered for ISO 9000 certificates. Of these, systematic random sampling is used to obtain 276 organizations as studied sample to investigate determinants of the maintenance of ISO 9000 certification. It is hypothesized that...
Marketing strategies adopted by organic cosmetic brands
Case study - 45 pages - Services marketing
This document delves into the marketing strategies adopted by the organic cosmetics industry; the eco-friendly nature of these products facilitates the ethical image of the brands, complemented by an effective marketing communication. A growing industry, the resounding success of bio-cosmetics...
The growing impact of operational risks and its application to banks
Dissertation - 70 pages - Finance
Since their implementation in the banks in January 2007, operational risks are considered a main point of the strategy of banks. Operational risks are defined as “the risk of loss resulting from inadequate or failed internal processes, people and systems, or from external events1.” The...
What future does the French public hospital hold?
Essay - 165 pages - Management
Within ten years, the French public hospital system's organization experienced several structural reforms. New managerial concepts coming from the industrial for-profit field spread into the public hospital sector, and outcome-oriented rationales replaced the unconditional answer to the...
The impact of the Beijing Olympic Games in China
Dissertation - 52 pages - International relations
In 2001, a historic decision was taken. Indeed, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) allowed the organization of the Olympic Games (OG) in China, and entrusted it especially to the city of Beijing. The challenges were big for China, because it was an opportunity to open up to the world....
Total Productive Maintenance
Case study - 9 pages - Logistics
Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) manufactures activities that are productive and implemented by everyone in the organization. The main focus of TPM is to maximize the overall equipment effectiveness of the asset which is utilized to produce the goods and services. TPM focus on establishing...
Green marketing issues about Total
Case study - 16 pages - Services marketing
Total is a leading multinational energy company with 111, 401 employees and operations in more than 130 countries. Together with its subsidiaries and affiliates, Total is the fourth largest publicly-traded oil and gas integrated company in the world. Its businesses cover the entire oil and gas...
Optimisation in Network Structured Asset Management
Tutorials/exercises - 43 pages - Finance
This report considers the role of optimisation in the asset management of a large distribution network. In particular, we look at how to determine the optimal policy for project release. Projects relating to replacement of existing assets and network re-design may be prioritised given capital...
Total Quality Management in Services
Tutorials/exercises - 11 pages - Business strategy
Total Quality Management is a component of strategic managment, which improves an organization from top to bottom. In particular, it is a structured approach, which aims at enhancing customer satisfaction and loyalty through a continous improvement of services quality. Total Quality...
A Comparative study of national and local anti-poverty campaigns in the urban centers of America during the 1960's
Tutorials/exercises - 4 pages - Modern history
In his 1964 inaugural speech, President Lyndon Johnson first discussed his initiative to wage a “War on Poverty.” Throughout his administration, his domestic policy was centered on his commitment to the creation of a “Great Society,” which he believed was attainable only...
An Investigation Into the State of Microfinance in Benin (2005)
Essay - 16 pages - Finance
Research on the economic and social development of countries in Africa demonstrates that there are a host of issues that must be addressed in the context of improving daily economic conditions for individual citizens. While some of these issues have been addressed by government agencies and...
