Acid Rain
A meeting of Varndean Web Design will be held on Tuesday 10th October 2002 in my office at 3:20pm. Agenda . Apologies for absence 2. Minutes last meeting 3. Matters arising from minutes 4. Current projects 5. Future initiatives 6. Any other business 7. Date and time of next meeting John Burton Managing director Agenda Stewart Yalda Page
A clear explanation of how the production process and quality assurance/control system employed by the business help it to add value to its product or service.
Task 7 E6, A2: A clear explanation of how the production process and quality assurance/control system employed by the business help it to add value to its product or service. The importance of employees at McDonalds is widely recognised. McDonalds realize and acknowledge that the intelligence of their employees is the reason for their business success. They believe intelligent employees are able to add millions/billions of pounds to the value of a corporation hence are the people that use the latest information technologies, and those that interact either face to face or through some other form of communication with customers. McDonalds believe training is an essential strategy to meet their objective of employing the best possible staff and they believe that those who are left out of the knowledge revolution will be left behind in the new knowledge economy. The more individual talent they nurture, the more economic growth they will achieve. McDonalds have a personal objective they apply to their business, which is skill and knowledge development. McDonalds think that any intelligent worker requires a range of skills and aptitudes that enables him or her independently to make decisions on behalf of the organisation. The sorts of decisions the intelligent employee makes require good communication skills, good interpersonal skills, the ability to work with numbers and
Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence Introduction Today, people are interacting more and more with computers. Life is running at a microchip speed. If all computers are stopped for a day, complete civilization comes to a halt! Fifty years ago, this might've been a science fiction, but today it is a reality. Further, with Computers being embedded in all of our life accessories like mobiles, watches, cars, even our bodies and brains there is no indication that this microchip speed will not be multiplied in the future. Over the last decade, these electronic tiny minuscule signals have fundamentally revolutionized the way we live. People are spending more hours per day with machines than humans. An amazing a human-machine relationship is developing. So far this bond has been one sided because the ability to generate, recognize and express emotions are a unique prerogative of living human beings. If this intelligence or abstract attribute could be taught to machines, it would re-conceptualize the perception of machines. It will fundamentally change the way we will life, in the third millennium. We taught machines how to read, speak and understand humans by voices, actions and events. Now we are fast approaching a stage where we will have to impart intelligence to make these non biological machines a part of living beings family. Further, diminishing the difference between living and
An investigation into business Communication
To: Miss Hargreaves From: Rajiv Trivedi Date: 30/04/2004 Title: An investigation into business Communication Terms of reference: I have been appointed as a consultant to a medium sized manufacturing company employing 120 people. Part of the company organization appears below: In this company there will be problems with communication. This report will look at the needs and importance of good business communications also the range of communication methods available, e.g. people, paper, electronic. Findings Written- methods include letters, e-mails, faxes, messages on notice boards, memos and reports. Written methods are good for permanent records. Also, many people can see copies. However feedback can be difficult to obtain. . Also if you do not understand what someone has written it id hard to check with them. Verbal- These methods include telephone calls, one - to - one conversations , group meetings in person or using video conferencing .This is good information can be given quickly. Body language and tone of voice can reinforce the message send feedback can be easily obtained. However, there's no permanent record of the message and sometimes people forget what they have been told. Visual- These methods include films, posters, diagrams and charts. Visual communication is good as complicated information can be summarized so the message is received quickly.
Activity Based Costing
BA (Hons) Business Administration Level 2 Management Accounting BU2013 Carl James & Lawrence Marshall Activity Based Costing Word Count - 1,562 Abstract Activity-based costing is a practice focused on the 'budgeting and analysis process that evaluates overhead and operating expenses by linking costs to customers, services, products and orders.'(Chutchian-Ferranti. J et al (1999)). It was from the mid 1980's that this practice really started to develop due to flaws which were being identified in the traditional costing system. Tom Kennedy et al (2000) argues, 'that the current practice of ABC is now at its peak with 20 percent of companies worldwide using or either considering the practice of ABC.' 'Much has been written about the demise of the traditional accounting systems and the revolutionary attributes of activity based costing (ABC). Given the significant professional services that have developed on the back of it, it is interesting that the system is not as popular in practice as its supporters would suggest. ABC has been hailed as the answer to our prayers, but things are never that simple.' (Kennedy T and Bull R (2000) 'The Great Debate') In the above paragraph Tom Kennedy et al (2000) says ABC is 'not as popular in practice as its supporters would suggest.' This maybe the view of Tom Kennedy but past surveys carried out argue that ABC has been adopted
Human resources
Contents . Family Business & Entrepreneurship 3 What is an Entrepreneur? 3 Extremes of Entrepreneur 3 The Nature of Entrepreneurship 3 Characteristics defining an entrepreneur 4 Definition of Small Business 5 Definition of Family Business 6 Under which category does Family Business fall? 6 Scope of Presentation 6 2. SMEs & Family Businesses 7 Current Situation 7 Strengths and Challenges of SMEs and Family Businesses 8 SMEs in a Globalised Environment 8 New Entrepreneurs 9 Services to SMEs and Family Businesses 9 What is a Family Business? 11 Advantages and Disadvantages of Family Business 13 The Family Business Life Cycle 14 Conflict of Cultures 15 3. Human Resources & Human Relations 16 Introduction 16 Recruitment and Retention 16 Cranfield Survey 18 Leadership 19 Delegation 19 Investment in Training 21 Communication 22 4. Owner-Manager Types 23 Heroes 24 Artisans 24 Meddlers 25 Strategists 26 Relationship between the Owner-Manager and His Key Staff in a Growing Firm 27 5. Why Family Businesses Die 28 6. Family Business in Malta 31 7. SWOT Analysis 36 Basic SWOT Analysis 36 Strengths of family business 37 Weaknesses of Family Businesses 38 Opportunities of Family Business 39 Threats of Family Business 39 8. Conclusion 40 9. Reference 41 Family Business and Entrepreneurship What is an
"In order to find out how things really are, one must understand the filters through which one perceives the world." Discuss and evaluate this claim.
"IN ORDER TO FIND OUT HOW THINGS REALLY ARE, ONE MUST UNDERSTAND THE FILTERS THROUGH WHICH ONE PERCEIVES THE WORLD." DISCUSS AND EVALUATE THIS CLAIM. Patricia Do Rosario TOK - Mr. Martin December 9, 2003 "I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than usual. But you've been getting ready to know it for a long time, and when it comes, you feel you've known it always." Katherine Anne Porter, 1989 Perception in human beings is "the process whereby sensory stimulation is translated into organized experiences". Perceiving something is to be aware of things that surround us by using our senses. Our senses include touching, hearing, seeing, smelling and tasting. People obtain many of their information on their daily lives by using their senses and the information that is gathered is processed by their brains. Our brains as we all know, "is a large part of the nervous system and a large electronic system that is capable of solving complex problems, storing data, examining and analyzing material, and controlling processes with great speed." The word "perception" is simply another meaning for "opinion judged on your experience." It is clearly obvious that everybody's perceptions and insights are different from others because everyone has their own observations; therefore, they have their own opinions about what
ICT developments.
In recent years the modern age logistics in the world development is extremely rapid, on the one hand is because the world economics integration advancement is speeding up, specially the multinational corporation in the global purchase, the global production and the global sale scale is more and more big; On the other hand the reason is the information communication technology high speed development, enables the desire which optimizes in the global scope conformity resources realization to be able to realize, and the cost is more and more low. Thereupon logistics takes the modern information communication technology as the strut, which lead to its swift and violent development. Many third parties logistics service providers (3PLs) depend on the information system as the main competitive power, through integrating society resources like vehicles, the warehouse and so on beforehand to provide the service to the customer for integration. Also displays for the production enterprise or business trade enterprise uses the information communication technological transformations to optimize the original flow, reduce the cost of logistics and enhance the enterprise the competitive power. "EDI refers to the direct transfer of information between computers of trading partners. To achieve the goal of paperless transactions, the exigent need for a common standard for recognizing interflow
ICT in Business
ICT in Business The main aim of this assignment is to establish the growth of E Commerce within British Retail. In order to do this appropriate research methods must be carried out which will mainly be done via internet. The two main E Commerce businesses I have chosen to research are Amazon and eBay, which are the two major e commerce stores currently dominating the online market. British Retailing is also named as 'E Tailing', e-commerce consists of the buying, selling, marketing, and servicing of products or services over computer networks. The information technology industry might see it as an electronic business application aimed at commercial transactions. Out of the two chosen e commerce companies it has proven that eBay is one of the main dominating companies it has been predicted that by April 2010 online shopping will have expanded by 320% resulting £60 billion a year and accounting for 20% of all UK sales. Amazon was launched in 2000 and has taken on alliances such as 'Cars Direct', 'drugstore.com' and 'wireless phones.com' which has a connecting link to other British retail stores online. By Amazon and eBay using e commerce as source of British Retail it will enable consumers to access products a lot faster which will save time as opposed to going out and physically going to have to buy them. The benefits of using ICT within this specific area of British
ICT in Organisations.
ICT IN OGANISATIONS General company information The jet petrol band was started in the 1950's by a Yorkshire entrepreneur, John Billy Roberts whom wanted to offer the motorists high quality fuel at competitive prices. The jet name originates from the number plates of the first petrol tankers bought in Rotherham (J.E.T. being the Rotherham registration letters). In 1961, Jet was bought by conoco limited, a UK subsidiary of the international oil company conoco inc., which built of jets low price tradition. As part of Conoco Limiter's ongoing program to optimize its U.K. marketing performance, the company today announced the sale, for an undisclosed sum, of 175 company-operated Jet service stations in the U.K. to Fuel force Limited, a newly-created independent fuel retailer. Fuel force Limited is supported by the Debt Ventures team of The Royal Bank of Scotland. Size, (staff/costumers) Under the sale agreement, Conoco will supply petroleum products to the outlets that Fuel force will continue to operate under the Jet brand. The sale increases Conoco's Jet-branded dealer network from 388 to more than 560 outlets. Today jet has approximately 600 outlets all around the country. As you know, there has been and always will be a lot of demand for petrol as it is a key element in which people need in order to transport around. Jet was one of the first before companies
