The Rubber Company : analysis of change process
Case study - 8 pages - Management
"This document will study the difficulties in applying change processes and systems in the traditional life cycle of any given company and the creation of a successful change management roadmap, to be integrated into the diagnostic of any given company". Change process often needs to be...
Reasons for doing qualitative research into strategic decision-making process
Tutorials/exercises - 7 pages - Business strategy
Strategic decision-making process is a crucial part of strategy formulation and implementation. However, most inquiries into strategic decision-making process use quantitative methods. Even if there have been calls for more qualitative method for decision-making research, most...
Case study: To what extent did the democratization process cause Côte d'Ivoire to collapse?
Essay - 5 pages - Political science
Between 1960 and 1990, Côte d'Ivoire was regarded as a model of state stability and state efficiency. But in 2002 the Ivorian State completely collapsed. At the same time the level of democracy in Côte d'Ivoire went up between 1990 and 2002, leading the country from a paternalistic...
Process approach and grammar instruction in ESL writing classes
Thesis - 2 pages - Educational studies
To correct or not to correct grammar issues? This is the question that ESL writing teachers have been asking since the 1970s up until the 1980s during which they taught Writing as a process of generating ideas, drafting, and then refining the final product by attending to accuracy issues....
The place of guanxi in the modern Chinese society and impact on management processes within China and also on international business relations with China
Dissertation - 77 pages - Management
China is a unique country that places personal relationships above any other aspect of life. The guanxi is a famous relationship aspect of China, and with the recent interest from the whole world concerning China and its expansion, it is interesting to study the importance of this historical...
European union and regulation of the peace process in the Middle East since 1991
Essay - 10 pages - International relations
Launched with the Madrid Conference in 1991, the israeli-Palestinian peace process led to the historical handshake between Yasser Arafat and Shimon Peres at the White House in Washington. American president Clinton, thus sealed the signature of a statement of principles, and reaffirmed the...
Strategy and planning process in the Small Business and the Small & Middle Enterprises (SME) Sector
Business plan - 7 pages - Management
An essential ingredient of small businesses is business planning. It is perceived to be vital by both governments and business support infrastructure, such as the Business Links (Beaver, 2002, p88). On similar lines, O'Gorman bases his idea on the fact that one approach to developing a...
How convincing is the argument that the twin process of European integration and globalisation has contributed to a large extent to the rise of regionalist parties?
Essay - 12 pages - European union
In this document we will first understand the concept of regionalist parties. Then, we will critically examine the elements that contribute the correlation between the rise of those parties and the constitution of supranational entities in a globalized economy. We will observe the reasons why...
A continuous manufacturing processes to manage the outgoing quality
Thesis - 6 pages - Mathematics
When the production is continuous and the process is not under statistical control (i.e., p is the probability of a defective unit is constant) and at the same time it does not follow a scheme of total control, it is remarked that a dependent process will be more realistic than the...
The relationships among information sharing, process integration and supply chain responsiveness
Thesis - 5 pages - Management
How to survive and develop in this hyper competitive environment has become a major concern for many companies. To deal with the increasing uncertainty, manufacturers need to respond the customer demands quickly. But manufacturers can not improve supply chain responsiveness by themselves, they...
Implementation of circular lattice model for cyclostationary process
Thesis - 4 pages - Physics
to implement the circular lattice structure which comes under the area of statistical signal processing. The circular lattice structure can be used with wavelets, multi-rate signal processing systems. FPGAs perform the computation of different coefficients of the circular lattice model....
Machine learning interfacing with natural language processing
Thesis - 3 pages - Computer science
Human computer interaction (HCI) is an important aspect that should concern every computer system. Ubiquitous computing applications and many other complex applications calls for an interface that have more than simple selection of couple of options. Consequently we need computer interfaces which...
A comprehensive model for IS development: Information processing perspective
Thesis - 7 pages - Computer science
In order to develop IS (information systems) effectively, this study proposed a comprehensive model that delineates the relationships among contingency configurations of design variables, risk management, and software development success. Specifically, this paper examined the fit between...
Discuss the idea that mission may not necessarily be the first step in the strategic management process and explain the role played by mission in that process
Essay - 4 pages - Management
The 'raison dêtre' of each company is its mission, it is written down as a mission statement. A mission is a general expression of the overall purpose of the organization. It should answer to the question, 'what business are we in?'. Managers have to set strategies in order to...
Online match making process using fuzzy multi-attribute decision making method
Thesis - 4 pages - Computer science
In this paper, we study the fuzzy multi attribute decision making problems with preference information on alternatives, in which the attribute values and the preference values given by the decision maker(s) are in the form of triangular fuzzy numbers, and the information about attribute weights...
Change management: The difficulties in applying change processes - published: 12/10/2010
Course material - 8 pages - Management
When a company knows an important growth, the entrepreneur and the executives needs to manage the changes and adapt the organization to its new expectations. They have to adapt the company to the new demand and ensure this expansion without damaging the global service and functioning. But it is...
Process mapping
Essay - 20 pages - Management
The challenge faced by librarians today is "to maintain or cut costs, while, at the same time, increasing both the range and quality of services and programs." This assignment looks at library design, mainly including issues like new technologies, process layout, process type and...
The budgeting process at Carrefour
Case study - 4 pages - Accounting
The Carrefour Group, which is listed on the CAC 40, is a leader in European supermarkets. The Carrefour Group is not only well known throughout France but also in many parts of the world. This is the company we are interested in and have decided to contact. Carrefour was founded 1959 by the...
Leisure and the life cycle: The functions of leisure throughout the aging process
Thesis - 4 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Leisure is truly a universal human need. Every society, culture and region in the world has forms of entertainment and recreation designed to fulfill a wide range of needs. However, as people age many of their needs change, and thus their leisure and its functions change as well.( Kelly, 1982)...
The process of regionalization in West Africa: CEDEAO
Thesis - 7 pages - Political science
'I was convinced that the political freedom would inevitably precede our economic advancement. In the same manner, I am convinced that the African Unit will be done and this common base will enable us to build our complete development. This statement was written in 1957 by Kwame Krumah,...
The diversification process of the Walt Disney Company
Case study - 3 pages - Business strategy
The first issue of the Walt Disney Company has to face concerns about diversification. It was considering the extent to which it had to diversify and whether it diversified too far. It is legitimate to consider such a question as the number of businesses Disney presents has exploded since the...
Managing human capital in the process of merger and acquisition
Thesis - 5 pages - Human resources
Mergers and acquisitions have become a regular business strategy in the present corporate scenario. They involve lengthy and thorough discussions and strategies are worked out in detail before the deals are closed. These discussions influence the future of the organization with respect to the...
The process involved in setting up a drug store in the US
Thesis - 4 pages - Management
The medical industry has been growing by leaps and bounds over the years. Drug stores have become an integral part of the medical fraternity. They are retail establishments that market drugs. These may be medicines that are prescribed by doctors or over the counter drugs. The setting up of a drug...
Manufacturing process of optical fiber
Thesis - 5 pages - Physics
The initial studies in optical networking were undertaken in the 1970's. It was discovered that a glass fiber encased in an opaque sheath was capable of transmitting data at a speed higher than that of light. The optical fiber is thus one of the greatest technological advances in the area of...
Internationalization process: Michelin
Case study - 8 pages - Business strategy
The Michelin Company was founded in 1889 in Clermont-Ferrand (France) by Edouard Michelin. Initially, Michelin employed 52 persons in a plant spread over 32 acres. Edouard Michelin benefited of his brother's (André Michelin) support. The two brothers were complementary: André was an innovator,...
Consultant-client relationship and the consequences of the role change during the consulting process
Essay - 10 pages - Management
The client-consultant relationship is usually treated as central to the nature of a management consultancy work. Though it is true that consultants need to have a clear conceptual picture of their definition of consultation, and they need to understand how the operational model they choose helps...
Consumer Decision Process: The wedding preparations
Case study - 7 pages - Services marketing
The 'Wedding Channel' is an online company which permits brides and grooms to come up with ideas to prepare their wedding, as well as the guests to find presents. They have a list of all the necessities to prepare a wedding, from the reception sites to the photographer, and the...
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...
How do the French and Chinese negotiators process their thoughts in negotiation? Do different thought processes result in different opinions and solutions?
Essay - 13 pages - Management
In the context of globalization, models of businesses and management tend to be similar across the globe. Import-export is increasing everyday; for business purpose, people are flying from western to eastern countries and eastern to western countries all the time. However, some cross cultural...
Sexual differentiation revisited: Contributions of gene expression to a hormonal process
Thesis - 7 pages - Medical studies
The central dogma of sexual differentiation states that only the secretion of gonadal hormones causes all somatic sex differences that arise in tissues and organs. Nonetheless some traits in mice and bird models have been shown to differentiate independently of the animal's gonadal sex. Studies...