3. The following appeared in a memorandum issued by a large city’s council on the arts. “In a recent citywide poll, fifteen percent more residents said that they watch television programs about the visual arts than was the case in a poll conducted five years ago. During these past five years, the number of people visiting our city’s art museums has increased by a similar percentage. Since the corporate funding that supports public television, where most of the visual arts programs appear, is now being threatened with severe cuts, we can expect that attendance at our city’s art museums will also start to decrease.
Student Name: Edmund Lam Kin Hong Unit: Leading Self-Managed Teams Student No : D11339226 Assignment 1 Part B Programme : DBA Preamble This first assignment for the 'Leading Self-Managed Teams' unit was based on my own organisation, COMPASS Ltd, in which I am the current CEO. I have been the CEO for eight years since its set-up. I am given full autonomy to manage the daily operations of the company and report directly to the Board of Directors. It has an annual turnover of about US$20 million and is still growing at an annual rate of 25%. The current staff strength is about 40 people.
(Forbes) He is now ranked 19th on the Forbes billionaire list and 12Th in the United States. He is also ranked 27th on the most powerful peoples list. (Forbes) Bezos was able to start up a company, with a seventy percent chance of failing, in a tiny garage and turn it into something extraordinary. No one, including Bezos, could have ever imagined that Amazon would become what it is today. Jeff was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on January 12, 1964.
This segment easily generates the most revenue and is the most valuable to Disney’s management for future growth as evidenced by EPCOT. The theme parks and resorts segment has been the subject of much of the focus over the past several reporting periods. The main problem seems to be the low or zero growth in attendance over the last decade while their competitors have grown by 5% annually. Analysts have a rather poor outlook for the future and view the market as fully saturated by 25 major theme parks already in existence. The main
Pink Floyd, who started in England in 1965 under the original name of “Tea Set”, has never really been a dominating force in the musical world. This goes to show how great that Pink Floyd really is, because they have achieved so much success while only gaining minimal face time. They had only one number one Billboard hit in the U.S., but constructed a whole list of works that stick in many people’s minds as great in their own right. Pink Floyd has always been original and has always differentiated themselves in the minds of devoted fans and critics alike. Pink Floyd is considered to be “Classic Rock,” but many people of their time-period saw them as the blues, jazz and sometimes even punk rock.
Weaknesses: Since Nintendo are not technology based, they rely on many outside suppliers and manufacturers to provide the parts for the systems, more so than their rivals. Their manufacturing and warehouse process is greatly dependent on these third parties. With regard to the Wii, it is lacking some core features, such as high quality graphics, high definition viewing, and a strong online network. Opportunities: Wii was the only console on the market which was turning a profit. According to Forbes, the Nintendo Wii is averaging $6 profit per unit sold, which has amounted to roughly$180 Million in revenue for the company (Schoenberger, C., 2008).
Austen Shane March 4, 2009 Com 114 Section 77 Explaining News Speech Outline General Purpose Statement: To explain Specific Purpose Statement: To explain to my audience that we do, in fact, use all of our brains and not 10% like commonly believed. Thesis Statement: The idea that humans only use ten percent of their brains is a myth that pervades popular culture, but a myth that under closer examination of its origins, the actuality of the myth’s truth and a look at the famous case of Phineas Gage will prove false. Introduction: I. Attention Getter: “It’s been said that we use a mere 10% of our brain capacity”, others have said “you only use 11% of its potential”, and it has also been said that “the ‘hidden nine-tenths’ of your mental strength lies buried”, unfortunately as interesting as all these quotes sound they are all just slogans used by advertisers to sell digital TV, books, and even sell airplane tickets (Chudler, 2008). II.
Stickley Furniture BUS 644 Michael Burton May 14, 2012 Introduction Stickley Furniture is a company that manufactures furniture since the 1900's and in the 1970's the company was having some financial issues and in 1974 the present owner bought the firm and they have been doing well ever since. The company went from having 200 employees to 20 full time employees and currently they now have 1,350 employees. The furniture company has five retail stores in New York, Connecticut, North Carolina and about 120 dealers nationally. The facility is a large rectangle building with a 30 foot ceiling, the size helps to compensate for all the different areas and sections where the work is held, produced, and stored. Basic Process Types To determine which production process type will best fit the Stickley Furniture company primary mode of operation will discuss the following: job shop, batch, repetitive, and continuous.
Best Buy is not only one of the United States largest electronics retailer but one of the world’s. Enjoying a positive reputation and good brand image, Best Buy is one of the very few which have successfully sustained recession. There were about a dozen significant electronic retailers in the US 20 years ago, Best Buy is now the only one. Best Buy being one of the largest worldwide electronic retailer can be consider a distinctive competence for other organizations because Best Buy has no direct competency. There are no other organizations that sell the same products nor can match Best Buy in size and reputation.
Even though Amtron is regularly approached by various other suppliers, the trust with which Amtron does business with NLL has prevented other suppliers to replace NLL. NLL’S annual sales is close to $1 billion. NLL has around 500 customers out of which top 25 customers account to 67% of its sales. In 2000 Amtron had dropped to 20th place, 24th in 2008 and last year ranked 30th. Orders have declined from $45 million in 2000 to $20 million last year.