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28 Jul 2021

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,...

06 Apr 2010
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An autonomous knowledge acquisition system toward the ubiquitous knowledge management

Tutorials/exercises - 13 pages - Management

Knowledge management (KM), which pursues dynamic knowledge creation and sharing within and among organizations, had been boomed since the end of the last century. However, because of some technical limitations as well as cultural barriers, the concept of KM has been getting buried alive,...

16 Jan 2009
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EEV (European Embedded Value) and MCEV (Market Consistent Embedded Value)

Essay - 11 pages - Business strategy

In May 2004 the CFO forum published European Embedded Value Principles. The “CFO Forum” is a high-level discussion group composed and attended by the Chief Financial Officers of 19 leading European insurers. These principles are intended to increase the quality, comparability and...

29 Jun 2010
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The grounded theory

Thesis - 5 pages - Computer science

The methodology of Grounded Theory is increasingly being used in research in information systems. However, some researchers consider this method as having non-rigorous data points and therefore unacceptable for scientific research and the use of empirical data. The purpose of the article...

15 Jan 2009
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"The innocent anthropologist" Notes from a mud hut - a book of Nigel Barley By Penguin Travel Library (1983), Penguin Books

Book review - 12 pages - Literature

A respectable anthropologist, British Museum's curator, Nigel Barley is yet distinguishable by two aspects from his eminent colleagues. First he chose for his thesis to study "Old English material in published and manuscript form" (11), involving the disapproval of many ‘purists' of the...

12 Jan 2009
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Positive-Normative distinction

Thesis - 3 pages - Economy general

The methodology in economics is important because it gives us a better understanding of the economic analysis. The purpose of economic theory is to provide a comprehensive framework for the study of human behaviour declares Gary Becker (1976). As the aim of the economy for governments is...

05 Mar 2009
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Advertisement and sales promotion with reference to Leo Labs IT Solutions Pvt. Ltd.

Case study - 35 pages - Services marketing

LeoLabs IT Solutions Pvt. Ltd. has built a reputation of delivering software and business management solutions that provide measurable results. It has been recognized as one of the fastest growing companies in Hyderabad, India. LeoLabs growth can be attributed to the company's focus on...

16 Feb 2015
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How intelligence levels can be rated? - Quantitative Methods for Business

Case study - 4 pages - Business strategy

This research paper in particular tries to find out the causes of variation in brain intelligence. There are quite a number of reactions from different scientists like Epsteins, Broca and Hootons who studies this topic using different methodologies. For instance, Broca in his research states that...

26 May 2009
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Process improvement in recruitment, selection and functional design of hiring management system in relevance to IBM

Thesis - 18 pages - Human resources

Process Improvement, a methodology adopted for stabilizing and improving work tasks and systems can result in great benefits in processes in an organization by establishing continuous monitoring and control over those tasks and ensuring predictability of quality and costs. The recruitment...

28 May 2009
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Basic concepts of CRM

Thesis - 23 pages - Management

Customer Relationship Management (CRM) refers to the methodologies and tools that help businesses manage customer relationships in an organized way. CRM stands for Customer Relationship Management. It is a process or methodology used to learn more about customers' needs and behaviors...

15 Jan 2009
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Structuralism and history: Levi-Strauss, Althusser, Foucault

Essay - 10 pages - Business strategy

Structuralism may originate from Saussurian linguistics. In the Course of General Linguistics, Saussure defines one essential methodological principle: in response to previous methodologies, which defined historical evolution as the main object of linguistics, Saussure assumes that language must...

30 Jan 2017
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Action research: definition, application, methods...

Essay - 13 pages - Educational studies

Recently, most researchers have cited that they incorporate action research in the problem solving initiatives (Groundwater - Smith, 2009; Dick, Stringer, & Huxham, 2009). As a result, this paper discusses what action research is and how it can be applied to produce actual solutions for actual...

20 Apr 2010
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Vendor selection under uncertainty

Thesis - 6 pages - Physics

Vendor selection is of strategic importance to companies. This paper uses fuzzy tools for vendor selection to improve decision-making (DM) through a more systematic and logical approach. Expert opinion is portrayed by allocating different fuzzy weights to the linguistic data in the form of...

30 May 2009
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A critique of dividend policy of UK firms

Dissertation - 10 pages - Economy general

The times are changing for both business managers and investors. Probably the most important task for business managers today is the effective management of the company's portfolio of resources, and identifying, implementing and managing a strategy to leverage these resources to achieve...

01 Apr 2009
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Market analysis of IPO business in India

Market study - 27 pages - Finance

Like several other goods, which require a market place for buyers & sellers to come together, shares, too need a market where they can be sold & bought. The markets where shares are sold bought are either primary market or secondary market. The primary stock market is the place where the new...

20 Apr 2010
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A review of evolutionary algorithms for multi objective multi product multi modal distribution problem with a possible new approach

Thesis - 12 pages - Logistics

Transportation industry is a fairly large industry in today's globalized world, and has significant effect too. Each and every big or small industry is bound to use the transportation facilities or logistics. The main problems in this logistics operation are optimizing the cost, time; distance...

13 Aug 2010
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Expatriates: The pros and cons

Thesis - 13 pages - Management

Research concerning human resource staffing issues as regards international business personnel needs has emphasized the importance of the selection decision. Little has been done concerning the integration of this decision in the context of foreign business strategies. One analytical...

25 Nov 2013
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Introduction to cross-cultural psychology

Case study - 3 pages - Psychology

The practices and teachings of psychology are diverse and various since the structures are composed of sub-disciplines such as abnormal psychology, industrial/organizational psychology, social psychology and so on. The diverse beliefs and theories of each respected school of psychology is better...

22 Oct 2014
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Six Sigma at Amazon.Com

Case study - 14 pages - Business strategy

Six Sigma involves linking the best elements of quality initiatives in a sustained pursuit of attaining efficiency, customer satisfaction, reduced cycle times and defect rates. This report involves a case study of the successful implementation of the strategy at Amazon.com Inc., as part of its...

06 May 2010
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A system dynamics approach for village development planning with reference to India

Case study - 12 pages - Social sciences

This paper presents the results of a detailed 10-week long fieldwork done at the Tuljapur village in Thane district of Maharashtra a state in India obtained from modeling the observed data using the System Dynamics methodology. Various resource-technology-need linkages (forward and...

16 Feb 2011
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The FMEA and its applications in sectors

Essay - 10 pages - Business strategy

The FMEA was developed by the U.S. Army in the late 1940s as a military procedure (MIL-P-1629). It was used as a technique for assessment of reliability and to determine the effects of failures of systems or equipment. The failures were classified according to their effect on mission success and...

16 Feb 2011
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Logistic strategies of the companies of luxury - Example of Louis Vuitton

Case study - 42 pages - Logistics

In this paper, we will focus on logistics and strategies of luxury companies. We will also analyze their future prospects. Initially, key concepts and existing models in terms of logistics are defined in the first paragraph. Therefore, one sees three different types of strategies, the offensive,...

15 Jan 2009
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Critics on the research paper: The market pricing of accruals quality (Jennifer Francis, Ryan LaFond, Per Olsson, Katherine Schipper)

Market study - 8 pages - Services marketing

The paper “The market pricing of accruals quality” sustains that the quality of accruals is priced by the financial markets. We can judge the value of this research by wondering to what extent, from a methodological and theoretical point of view, the accrual quality has an impact on the...

20 Feb 2009
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A look at the consumer response to creativity in advertising

Dissertation - 56 pages - Services marketing

This chapter will provide an outline of the topics that will be covered in this proposal. It will briefly give an overview of the proposed research topic and acknowledge the importance of this study. Next, the literature review and the methodology chapters will be summarized. This will...

29 Mar 2016
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Use of multiple methods to examine risk in project appraisals

Essay - 5 pages - Educational studies

Project appraisal is the methodology of evaluating and addressing proposition before assets are conferred. It is a key device for successful activity in group re-establishment. It's a method by which organizations can pick the best projects to help them attain to what they need for...

20 Apr 2009
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Analysis of money laundering risks in priority banking: A unit if Standard Chartered Bank

Tutorials/exercises - 65 pages - Finance

Money laundering, at its simplest, is the act of making money that comes from Source A look like it comes from Source B. In practice, criminals are trying to disguise the origins of money obtained through illegal activities so it looks like it was obtained from legal sources. Otherwise, they...

07 Apr 2010
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Decision support for knowledge intensive business processes

Essay - 5 pages - Management

Strategy development, new product introduction, marketing research, and financial budgeting, are a few examples of Knowledge Intensive Business Processes (KIBPs). These processes tend to be complex and time consuming, requiring collaboration and the sharing of expertise within specific work...

10 May 2010
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Artificial intelligence for classification of defects in ultrasonic testing

Tutorials/exercises - 14 pages - Computer science

A methodology is developed to detect defects in NDT of materials using an Artificial Neural Network and signal processing technique. This technique is proposed to improve the sensibility of flaw detection and to classify defects in Ultrasonic testing. Wavelet transform is used to derive a...

10 May 2010
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Fuzzy QFD for optimizing the engineering characteristics of a casting product

Thesis - 8 pages - Computer science

A casting may be defined as a metal object obtained by allowing molten metal to solidify in a mould, the shape of the object being determined by the shape of the mould cavity. Defective castings, even at advanced foundries, account for 2 to 5% and sometimes from 10 to 25% of the number of...

24 May 2010
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Constructive and equivalent variable cost heuristics to the multi-period fixed charge transportation problem

Thesis - 7 pages - Computer science

This paper addresses a multi-period fixed charge transportation problem (MPFCTP), which includes transportation, inventories and backlog. The transportation costs are represented in the form of a nonlinear function. The objective is to determine the size of the shipments in each period, inventory...