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Competing on differentiation Apple Corporation is a leader in IT products, thus differentiating itself from the products. By reviewing its history, the company is a technology leader enabled through continuous innovation. The company pioneered the PDA industry by producing Newton in 1993. As other competitors picked the pace, Apple introduced the iMac in 1998 with new features but easier to use than any other such product in the market (Iliev, Lindinger & Poettler, 2004). In 1999, the company changed the history of PDAs when they introduced the first electronic book reader, the iBook, allowing Apple to be the first to have a portable computer and a desktop in both consumer and professional segments. Still, the company hit another historical point when it launched the iTunes in 2001 marking the beginning of the new strategy to make Mac the core for the
Introduction Speaking about the simulation video that we were supposed to watch, it is necessary to mention the fact that all the manipulations were shown in a quite detailed way (RHIC Simulation Center, 2016). In general, I suppose that there are many things connected to the video that can be regarded as useful and right from the point of view of the patient. To begin with, I would like to pay attention to the sequence of actions performed by the nurse. Personally, I suppose that the process of examining the patient was performed successfully as the nurse paid attention to all the measures that could be important in that particular situation. I think that it is important to indicate such details in order to help the future specialists to be able to remember the necessary actions and their correct order. Furthermore, discussing the things that went well in the given video, I would like to mention the way that the nurses collaborated. When the patient’s nurse left the hospital room, a problem with his breath occurred. At that moment other nurses who nearby came to him immediately and they started helping him and giving necessary recommendations. As for me, it was one of the most successful things concerning the simulation because nursing belongs to a number of spheres where a lot of unexpected situations may happen, and the importance of mutual assistance between nurses should not be underestimated. Main body As a part of the task, we are also supposed to criticize nurses’ actions and decisions if we believe that something could have been done better. Personally, I cannot say that any actions taken by the nurse who was working with Charles could be regarded as unnecessary or performed in the wrong way. As for me, if I were his nurse I would make almost the same decisions that the nurse from the video made. Thus, I suppose that her strategy was good and effective, and it also supported all the needs of the patient that was essential for success. Moreover, it was obvious that she paid attention to active collaboration with other nurses and the doctor; it is known that such collaboration significantly increases the chances of positive outcomes for the patients (Sollami, Caricati, & Sarli, 2015). Therefore, I believe that the nurse’s performance is really successful and there are no things that need to be done in another way. Conclusion I can definitely say that this simulation video was really helpful for me as it encouraged me to generalize everything that I already knew about hospital care. Furthermore, it gave me an opportunity to see the process of providing the patient with care as it is. Besides, I was paying increased attention not only to a series of actions performed by the nurse but also to the way she talks to the patient. It may be stated that the way that you formulate your requests and suggestions maybe not so important in certain unexpected situations when there is a need to a
Executive summary The demand for business expansion outside national boundaries has been increasing steadily over the years. This has been due to the current dynamic nature of consumerism and globalization trends. A business intending to expand to a new market like India needs to first of all, gain adequate understanding of the country. The vast population and resources in India offer one of the best locations where foreign businesses can expand to. However, there are challenges that may make a foreign business to hesitate expanding to this region. Such challenges include the image of India to the rest of the world as a poor nation with a greater percentage of its population living under the poverty line, issues related to culture as well as language barriers. Nonetheless, expanding a business from Canada to India would provide with an opportunity for growth, improved sales due to huge population as well as considerable competitive advantage against other market rivals. Introduction The increasing competition and pressure in the global business arena have driven many firms to seek opportunities where they can expand their operations internationally. The prosperity and viability of a firm expanding to another country greatly depends on its ability to respond efficiently and effectively to challenges in its environment. Studies indicate that expanding a business internationally is an initiative that may come with various risks and challenges with regards to operating in environments which are not familiar. However, Hughes points out that expanding to new grounds may boost the sales and performance of a business. 1 Therefore, finding a good location provides a business with numerous advantages which include relatively low cost of production as well as potential market growth. On the other hand, poor choice of location may yield risks that can affect growth of a business. This paper analyses India as a location for business expansion and also offers recommendations and conclusions on whether it is the best environment to expand business operations. Overview of India Geographic profile : India is located in the south of Asia and it is ranked as the seventh largest country in size and the second largest in terms of population. Reports from the Central Intelligence Agency indicate that India hosts up to 16% of the total world’s population who occupy its 3.29 million square kilometers. 2 Additionally, it has a population of 1.16 billion people with Hindu being its official language and English used as a business language. Geologically, its climate is tropical monsoon with four seasons. 3 Its natural resour
Electronic monitoring is an intermediate sanction that applies to offenders as an alternative to incarceration. Electronic monitoring can be used as a pretrial or post-trial measure depending on the circumstances. This sanction is used for offenders in all fifty states and can monitor location, blood alcohol level, or breath (Electronic Frontier Foundation, 2019). The sanction is used for mild offenders, such as drunk drivers (Homant, 2013). The sanction usually monitors the location of an offender using GPS and Secure Continuous Remote Alcohol Monitoring (SCRAM) to make sure that the offender stays away from restricted areas and does not take any alcohol (Electronic Frontier Foundation, 2019). The benefits of the sanction are evident, as the offenders have a chance to stay with family members, continue working, and be a part of the community (Electronic Frontier Foundation, 2019). Electronic monitoring helps to avoid the stigma associated with incarceration and helps to control the population of prisons. However, there are some controversial situations where a person may need to enter a restricted area to perform his or her job duties, pick up an elderly relative during bad weather, or take a sick child to the hospital. Moreover, electronic monitoring may impede a convict’s ability to go to job interviews, access employment and education, receive medical treatment, and participate in family or community life (Electronic Frontier Foundation, 2019). I believe that benefits outweigh the drawbacks as electronic monitoring is associated with fewer expenses to the government and less restriction to the offender in comparison with incarceration. Technology plays the central part in supervising drunk drivers, as electronic monitoring would be impossible without GPS and SCRAM technologies. Even though in this case, technology does lead to better outcomes in comparison with incarceration, technology does not always lead to better community supervision outcomes. In particular, monitoring offenders’ locations requires the close attention of the supervisors. However, supervisors do not always have enough time due to increased workload.
Cyberterrorism is a new type of cunning schemes that are applied by individuals and hacker teams that aim at affecting or destroying information systems and computer networks. Such attacks range from installing malicious software programs to the destruction of entire infrastructures. Although it is often almost impossible to identify hackers who are involved in such intrusions, there are different methods to improve a situation after the attack. The example of Sony cyberattacks will be closely discussed in this study. The main goal of this paper is to analyze the case of cyberattacks on Sony, discussing the existing evidence and alternative decisions that could have alleviated the negative impact of the incident on customers. Issue Sony was subjected to a large-scale elaborated cyberattack by an Internet hacker team called Anonymous. The team launched the attack as a response to the pursuit of several famous hackers (Takahashi, 2011). This invasion was one of the elements of the operation called Payback. The operation was a series of attacks that were aimed at bringing the company’s website down. However, Sony was not the only target of the hacker group. All companies that refused to acknowledge and support WikiLeaks were at risk of such attacks. The team members believed that Sony abused the judicial system as the company censored information about its products that its clients share with each other (Takahashi, 2011). The hackers warned that they would continue their wicked activities. Data Analysis WikiLeaks published an enormous number of confidential government’s messages, which provoked protests among many large corporations. Sony sued a famous hacker, Hotz, for reversing “the PlayStation 3’s security system and posting “jailbreaking software that allows users to run unauthorized programs on their PS 3s” (Takahashi, 2011, para. 4). Therefore, the attack had political motives. In addition, the hackers stated that Sony violated the privacy of people. However, the company’s senior managers claimed that they had detected the cause of the first attack that had taken place several days before, and they blamed Anonymous for it. The hacker group denied its involvement in this incident (Tsukayama, 2011). These facts demonstrate that there was a highly sophisticated conspiracy that might have involved people throughout the world, including Sony’s employees. The company claimed that “hackers had broken into its PlayStation and Qriocity networks April 17-19 and may have released the
The USA-China Trade War The premise for the United States-China trade war first occurred when the US Commerce Department recommended a 24% tariff on steel and 7.7% on Aluminum import on February 16, 2018. The given act was treated by the Chinese government as a direct assault against their economy. China currently represents the world’s largest market of steel and trade with the USA arrives as one of the major constituents of the country’s stable economic growth. The response measures from March 22, 2018, resulted in tariffs on American products being worth $3 billion. In its turn, it served as a stimulus for President Donald Trump to go ahead with his initial plan and to resort to even stricter policy in the matters of Chinese goods’ import. On July 6, 2018, the US government imposed $34 billion in duties against China and this decision immediately came into effect after midnight Eastern Standard Time. China’s intentions to impose duties on agricultural and energy products from the USA in retaliation for the implemented Trump’s policy is viewed by analysts as one of the key measures to impact the U.S. economy. The country is already searching for alternative sources of soybeans that previously brought $14 billion for American suppliers annually. Many experts admit that such products as pork, chicken, nuts, and electric vehicles are soon to be targeted with extra tariffs and Chinese business owners will be forced to buy them for higher prices. Meanwhile, America threatens its opponent to raise duties on high-tech appliances, trains, medications, aircraft, and radio equipment. A predicted 25% fee increase on electronics will cost the U.S. companies an additional $12.5 billion. The situation becomes worsened by the fact that the country has few alternatives in purchasing the needed amount of high-tech devices. Thoughts About the Trade War Considering the seriousness of the economic conflict, both countries will suffer financial losses, although the latter may differ in amount. The occurring trade war will significantly cut China’s exports to the USA. Chinese corporations will look for new markets and will s
Introduction Marriott International, Inc. is a hotel management and franchising company which has originated as a family restaurant business and over several decades has grown into a large lodging company known all around the world. Currently, the organization deals with satisfying the hotel needs of customers in around 70 countries. The company is being led by J.W. Marriott who has been its Chief Executive Officer and Chairman for more than half of a century and who turned it into what it is now. His vision of the organization is to become the world’s leader in the lodging industry. To achieve the desirable, Mr. Marriott pays special attention to customer satisfaction, as well as ton productive and diverse workforce development. The company is known for its social responsibility and engagement with community affairs, which allows admiring not only its performance as such, but it’s staying concerned with the issues non-related to the business sphere. Marriott International is a successful organization that will necessarily meet all its objectives in the future due to its high level of culture, unique espoused values, correct underlying assumptions, effective primary and secondary embedding mechanisms, and its successful implementation of the Management Flexibility Pilot program. Level of Culture Marriott culture focuses primarily on the employees’ welfare with their contributions to the performance of the company are constantly emphasized and duly appreciated. It is not a secret that the organization takes great pride in its customer service, but the most important fact about this service is that it is based on the employees’ commitment to their work. Sustaining the personnel committed to their work is extremely difficult in such large organizations as Marriott International. Nevertheless, the company succeeds in this due to its culture being beneficial for both the employees and the administration. For the past several decades Marriott had “a deeply ingrained culture of “face time” – the more hours you put in, the better” (Harvard Business Review on Culture and Change, 2002, p. 22). The essence of such type of culture consists in the employee’s giving as much time and effort as possible to his/her job with higher pay for longer working hours being the major motivation at this. However, though such culture was beneficial for the organization’s performance (due to its resulting in higher productivity and, therefore, the rapid growth of the company), it was too stressful for the employees who were unable to handle the pressure and had to leave the company. This resulted in Marriot’s loss of the most talented managers and the necessity to establish an alternative type of culture. In 2000 the company saw drastic changes in culture due to the implementation of a test program called “Management Flexibility … the goal of [which] was to help Marriott’s managers strike a better balance between their profession and personal lives, all while maintaining the quality of [their] cu
It is important to have a grading system because there must be a way to assess the performance of the students. It is a problematic issue because the students do not really understand how it works. On the other hand the teachers are pressured to provide a way to accurately assess learning outcomes. In addition teachers are faced with the daunting task of giving students a failing grade if they deserve it. At the same time teachers are discouraged to give failing grades because it is a reflection that nothing was done to help the students achieve better results. Thus, it is mutually beneficial for students and teachers to use an improved grading system. It is important to alter the current system in place in order to use one that is more efficient and conducive to learning. An efficient grading system is one that effectively communicates to students, colleagues and institutions the extent of the learning outcome. At the same time it must be a transparent system. Students must have a fair understanding of how it works. Students must have a clear idea of the grade that they will receive. In the current system, students feel that they are graded using subjective methods. In this way students have a clear guide as to how to improve their performance. In the absence of an effective and efficient grading system, students are not encouraged to strive harder. Criteria Before going any further it is important to point out that the new grading system must help evaluate student’s mastery of the course material. In other words it is not a grading system developed to test students from a different school. It is not a system developed to evaluate learning outcomes of a grade school student. The said grading system must be focused on the materials covered in this semester. The new grading system must not only assess the learning outcome but it must also encourage the student to strive harder. This is made possible through an effective way to communicate strengths and weaknesses. Students must be given an effective feedback mechanism that is built into the said grading system. Thus, it is imperative that teachers should not only give grades that can be interpreted in different ways. There must be a system in place that enables the teachers to pinpoi
MPEG (derived from the encoding of the following abbreviation Moving Picture Experts Group) is a digital encoding of audio and video files in a format standard of lossy data compression (Pereira and Ebrahimi 589). In this respect MPEG has different versions due to the gradual flow of technological progress and achievements of this group of researchers who year by year tried to implement new approaches to the digital format. In other words the researchers provided updating of previous versions with additional advantages. According to Steven Shepard (2005) there such types of MPEG standards as: MPEG-1; MPEG-2; MPEG-3; MPEG-4; MPEG-7. The first version of MPEG layer is was invented to resolve problems with data compression due to the challenges of time. It was contrasting to CD-ROM and PC in storage capabilities. MPEG-2 is a version which incorporated the ability to transmit and compress files with the speed of 6 to 40 megabit per second range; this format is appropriate even for HDTV and DBS and is used to promote streamline video for different purposes (Shepard 82). MPEG -3 is a special format for audio files which allows on the rate of 128 Kbps to store music files with a less degradation of sound quality, but this approach varies in the extent of rate, of course(Shepard 82-83). MPEG-4 is a format designed for the purpose to play and promote low bit rate transmissions, and this version is reliable and usable in three fields of its direct implementation: “digital television, interactive graphics applications, and interactive multimedia such as the distribution of HTML-encoded Web pages” (Shepard 83). Multicasting is a service which is considered with data sending from one user to different ones who are interested in such packet data (Harold 451). One should not mix multicasting up with broadcasting, because it is in a away like a service club, where people share data from an appreciated user with further probable discussion of it in their short or relatively broad circles. It is concerned with IP telecommunications and relies on it, particularly, via Internet in contemporary world of high technologies. Multicasting is used in Australia. In fact, it is one of the innovations to be appropriate for Australia due to the huge size of its territory. Moreover, Australians have friends and relatives all over the country and neighboring territories, Tasmania Island and New Zealand as well. The only thing concerns the presence of Internet, so that to encompass the territory and provide connection with users. IT is shown on the example of inhabitants of the east and west sides of the continent, namely Sydney, Melbourne etc and, for example Perth. Encoding is a process which makes huge audio or video files converted into proper for Web distribution size (Ratcliffe and Mack 2
Introduction The world of literature is rich in different genres and styles implemented in it. In this respect people should judge on the literature solely from the perspective of time and philosophical trends relevant to it. In this way one is able to shape the reality of this or that work of literature through glancing at the author himself/herself and his characteristic features in writing novels or stories. Main text Dystopia is a genre that is quite opposite to something good that awaits people in the future. It is quite pessimistic narration on the drawbacks of current society with glimpses at the future. Turning out to the fact that reality can be deceitful and governmental unities can have an extra plan of making people obedient is an inevitable fact that is upon suspicion of many intelligent people. In this respect Modernism was going the way quite unique in its philosophical and rational coloring. Thereupon, one may suppose that the power of word used by Modernists, such as Kurt Vonnegut or Robert Silverberg was influenced by many social changes of the time. Scientific and technological progress and attempts of a man to reach out the areas of knowledge and influence that were not accessible for a long period of time provoked it. This is why it is vital to comparatively analyze the works by aforementioned Kurt Vonnegut and Robert Silverberg. The main ideas of dominance concentrated at hand of a higher straum of people are presupposed with the books by two outstanding dystopia writers. The manifestation of the everlasting longing of mind and spirit to the freedom of self-expression is common place for all three works under analysis. First of all, it is necessary to admit the works that are of great significance in this comparative essay. The first one is Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut. The second is Welcome to the Monkey House by the same writer. Finally, the third short story is The Pain Peddlers by Robert Silverberg. Each of them is a futuristic description of imaginary society in which people are void of freedom in almost everything. The main idea is that freedom of self-expression is harshly controlled by the top caste described in each story. Thus, it is about time to get deep into the peculiarities of these three works. Harrison Bergeron amazes by the fact that the main character is fourteen-year-old boy who wants to show people the truth. It is his great desire to make people understand what is great in life. Done in best features of Vonnegut’s style, this story characterizes the society of the future that is overloaded with scientific innovations. In turn it makes people spurred to the higher powers of the society due to being handicapped by special collars. The main motivation is to reduce the power of mind in ev