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Mass customization, a concept that has been subject of much publicity and a fair share of criticism from researchers and mainstream commentators (MacCarthy & Brabazon, 2003), refers to the capacity, achieved by a few organizations, to provide individually tailored products or services on a large scale (Zipkin, 2001). Although mass customization has been widely adopted in many manufacturing settings, it is yet to be fully incorporated in service-oriented settings. This observation, however, does not imply that mass customization can never be applied to service firms; on the contrary, a scenario is shaping up where service organizations are adopting the concept to, among other things, provide better services and reduce operating costs. Mass customization can be applied to service firms if such organizations tailor their services to the varied demands and expectations of their customers. This implies that for service organizations to fully integrate mass customization of services, they must move away from supply-led models towards a more demand-led orientation (Moon et al, 2011). In addition, service organizations, particularly in the call center business, are taking advantage of the convergence of IT and telecommunication industries to develop pre-programmed, pre-recorded call flows, which are then used to handle simultaneous client inquiries or send important information to customers via the Agent-assisted Automation system (Moon et al, 2011). Management: Formal Training or Experience A leading researcher once said that for one to learn about the abstract conceptions, he must first be able to establish actual relationships that can be established with the bare eye (Wagner & Harter, 2006). Bearing this in mind, it cannot be denied that top-level management often engage in establishing the so called abstract conceptions or the ‘intangibles’, implying that prior experience is absolutely necessary if one is to make any headway with regard to the abstractions. However, it should not escape the attention of the reader that for the top manager to be able to actively engage in establishing abstract relationships based on the intangibles, he must have prior capacity to establish actual relationships – something that can only be done through formal training. As such, it can only be argued that the two – formal training and experience – compliment each other in providing the top management with the capacity to make proactive decisions and be able to predict into the future business trends (Wagner & Harter, 2006). It should be noted that in management, unlike in other fields such as medicine, decisions do not follow similar approaches, and hence the need to compliment the two since situations are handled as they come (Sims, 2009). Technology & Face-to-Face Communication The convergence of technology witnessed in the 21 st century, along
The Battle of Algiers (1966) The Battle of Algiers is considered one of the most prominent films in the history of cinema. This movie was shot in 1966, just four years after the Algerian War of Independence. According to Gillo Pontecorvo who directed it, the film was based on the war between the Algerian National Liberation Front (FLN) and French paratroopers. This paper will provide a synopsis and analysis of the film. Synopsis The Battle of Algiers is an exceedingly political film, which won the 1966 Venice festival. The film covers injustice and the conflict during the 1950s. Furthermore, the film emphasizes the conflict between French paratroopers and Algerian insurgents in 1957, which led to several casualties on both sides. The film conveys memories of Ali la Pointe, the leading member of the Algerian National Liberation Front (FLN). It’s objective was to expel suppressive Europeans from Algeria. The French government colonized Algeria in the 1950s under extreme sociopolitical conditions that included oppression and injustice 1 . In the film, Ali La Pointe is killed along with other FLN leaders thereby creating a nationwide revolt. The film recreates vivid events that showed French paratroopers, led by colonel Mathieu, torturing FLN fighters 2 . The fight involved both Algerian women and children in the FLN’s struggle for independence. The film exposes a lot of atrocities committed during the Algerian war. For instance, while some Algerian children shot French soldiers at close range, Algerian women planted bombs in European occupied hotels. These attacks were coordinated by FLN insurgents. Moreover, the FLN appealed to Algerian Arabs seeking help to defeat French oppression. It resulted in nationwide riots that took innocent lives from both sides. As the resistance increased, the French government intervened to stop the uprising. Surprisingly, French paratroopers resorted to torture and intimidation to stop the insurgency. The film was shot in Algiers where the events had occurred. Moreover, the film manifests features of documentary style. Most political analy
Having read the article I came to the following conclusions. Taking into consideration all the facts that provoked the situation, I think that selling the stock was the only right decision. Jared Jackson as a stockbroker was and had to protect the money and investments of his clients. Today a lot of investors are becoming inclined in many social, ethical, and moral rules and laws of the companies which they have in their ownership. You can decide that the company, which you have in your ownership, produces methods or goods which contradict your social or moral beliefs. That is why there is no best decision than to sell their stocks. To my mind, the main reason for Jared to sell the stocks was his wish to save the fiduciary money of his investors. Of course, it was really hard for him to contradict the advice of his father with whom he was so close after his mother’s death. But business and, especially, stock affairs have nothing to do with family relations. From a social point of view, actions of Jared were really unethical, because he did not take into consideration the words of his closest person. But from the point of view of a stockbroker and a responsible worker, he did everything right. Jared’s only responsibility was to keep the investments of his clients safe and he chose the best way to preserve their money. There can be a lot of other personal reasons to sell stocks that are as good as those that Jared preferred. Before selling, all alternatives and consequences must be considered. There is nothing wrong with realizing that the stock does not work on you and goes further. Selling the stock for ethical reasons is often an intuitive action. That is why it is based on the human factor which sometimes can be truthful. The same we can see in the given article. Jared did not listen to the opinion of his father, though he made his choice under the influence of his sixth feeling and he was really right. Of course, he thought over all the alternative ways of solving the problem of losing the value of stocks where he invested his money and all the fiduciary costs of the investments. Jared made his decision based almost only on his instincts: “Mr. Market is a capricious individual, and sometimes he wakes up in an awfully generous mood and offers to pay you a price far in excess of what your investment is really worth. There’s no reason not to take advantage of his good mood. What you need to ask yourself is how likely it is that your estimate of what the company is worth could go up over time. If your estimate of intrinsic value is likely to rise then it’s worth waiting out periods of mild overvaluation” (Dorsey, p. 1). So, Jared’s deeds were considered and measured. He took care of the money of his investments. Of course, family values are important, but there is no place for them in your work. Otherwise, a person will not be a professional. “None goes ever upward, but
Advertising and the use of social media have become a major part of the current business landscape. With more and more emerging companies and corporations developing their products, businesses need a way to better connect with their audiences to secure profit. In such an effort, the popularization of social media interaction has been of great assistance, as it gives any company a public platform to engage with others. By facilitating communication and interactivity, popular social media give their users the ability to build a connection with a particular brand and find personal involvement ( What Is Social Media Engagement and Why Is It Important? ). It was shown that each platform requires its own approach and its own marketing strategy, but when mastered, it becomes an especially effective method of finding a committed client base. The company’s followers and readers are a good indication of both the company’s marketing efforts and its potential client base. The creation of an active social platform allows for a better marketing reach and brand awareness (Chen, 2020). Among other developing companies, making the potential customers aware of the company’s existence is especially important, as they will be more likely to turn to it if they are familiar with its style. While presenting content on social media to an audience can be effective, it is a flawed way of utilizing the platform given to a business. Directly interacting with potential customers via the comment section or various interactive events can be far more beneficial to the growth and development of a company. Social media has rather recently emerged as a new and novel way to connect with a variety of different demographics for any potential need. Businesses, especially, can utilize the popular platforms to build a stable and dedicated audie
Will Lam be able to exist or move between the two worlds? The Child of Two Worlds is a captivating story where the author, Lam, provides a description of what was “inside” and “outside” for him as a child. He presents two contrasting worlds, each of which has its own characteristics. The American world is, not only more advanced technologically, but also rich in distinct cultural affiliations, as compared to others. Old-functioned cultural beliefs and superstitions dominate the Vietnam world. Although, they morally helped in shaping its residents, Lam believes they are responsible for the evident technological backwardness of his native home. As a way of example, he presents the vitality of unearthing of the umbilical cords, which according to Vietnam cultural practices, were buried amid an atmosphere of celebrations to mark a life-long attachment to the Vietnam land (Lam 13). He proposes artistic and or language endeavors to unearth those umbilical cords to weave them to confer the modern tapestry. It is thus evident that both his mind coupled with his way of thinking have suffered a significant alteration. They have aligned themselves with the American styles of life and culture. In my opinion, the vivid description of the geographical and physical traits of the two worlds provides subtle grounds that indicate the boy’s inability to articulate well and or equally in the two worlds. Why Even though he believes that, Vietnam is part and parcel of what he is today, subjectivity to the norms and cultural believes of the land is not something that Lam is up to seize, leave alone grabbing and using it to define him. As he writes, Lam has a strong academic base, having gone through the American system of education. He is an emigrant living in Silicon Valley, where most Vietnamese had been turned from possibilities of being merchant rice farmers in the “S-shaped” Vietnam land into presidents of computer manufacturing companies (Lam 15). For instance, he cannot contemplate her mother’s cultural practices entangling offering prayers and sacrifices to the ancestors amid the modern American world of sophisticated communication systems. In fact, he wonders whether her prayers in honor of her ancestors would penetrate through the space filled with communication signals. Lam’s mind is a rigid one and provides no room for any unpractical perspective of looking at issues. How then could one anticipate him to accept the Vietnam world, a world that he possesses so much contempt about its cultural affiliation and practices that he refers to as inappropriate? According to Lam, a mention of the name ‘Vietnam’ triggers his childhood memoirs that tend to create reminiscence of childhood miseries. He claims that home may only be portable if fixed within an individual’s soul. He adds that his identity is open-ended (Lam 13). The most conspicuous thing before his eyes, he says, is a haphazard crisscross of cultures: some cultures being not development-oriented. What culture
Introduction Researchers using other authors’ works in the study either acknowledge them or choose to utilize their own knowledge. For both the writer and the student, a temptation may arise to plagiarize a task given my career areas and studies respectively. So plagiarism is when an author, be it a writer or a student, uses the thoughts and ideas of another author without citing a source. For that reason, I learned that I was plagiarizing when I took credit for a piece of material I did not create. This paper is an entire personal reflection on the research guide as well as a tutorial on how to avoid plagiarism when tackling assignments. Analysis of Strengths As a present-day scholarly writer, I have an advantage in a variety of sources at my disposal to refer to when working on a task. I have understood that my writing sources are divided into three categories, namely, primary, secondary, and gray sources. Primary sources are original records on the topic under study, which have withstood the tests of time, such as different regimes, global wars, and extreme weather conditions. They can be published or unpublished and raw depending on their dates and the purpose of their creation. They may include letters, paintings and pictures, artifacts, archeological sites, and articles written by infamous people on historical events that happened during their time. On the other hand, secondary sources include published and unpublished works of other authors. These authors also utilize information from primary events times after they happened. Published secondary sources include anthologies, monographic books, novels, religious texts, journals, periodicals, and official state and private organizations’ publications. Unpublished secondary sources will take the form of filed government and company reports, as well as term reports written by past students who studied in an institution. Lastly, gray sources are either primary or secondary sources depending on their creators. For instance, articles written as either primary or secondary sources are in newspapers or magazines. The above three classes are available to me as a researcher and can be acquired at my institutions’ library, information offices, the World Wide Web, and national archives. Analysis of Weakness Although
What are the different phases that a Drug Company goes through in order to bring a new drug product to market in the U.S. and Europe? In the US and Europe markets, new drugs are released in the market after a number of trials have been done. This is necessary to asses their efficacy and safety. Phase one revolves around experimental medicine where trials are done to asses the drugs tolerability and safety. As much as the drug might be administered, this is usually done under a lot of supervision. Phase two revolves around the effectiveness of the drug in relation to the illness (Pfizer, 2011, p. 8). In this case, the effectiveness of the drug in treating the illness is evaluated. This phase is characterized by collecting a lot of information on the drug to see its safety, risks and side effects. As a matter of fact, the best way by which the drug can be administered and the right dosage are evaluated. Phase three is done on large populations to gauge the effectiveness of the drug. In this case, a large number of participants are chosen to provide a primary basis for the experimental drug. The next step after phase three is registration with the regulatory authority (Pfizer, 2011, p. 5). For instance, the FDA in US and the EMEA in Europe are responsible for registration. After this has been granted, new medicines can then be sold to patients. A new approval refers to drugs that have been given the green light to be marketed. Phase four revolves around post marketing studies that are occasionally done on a drug after it has been registered. Did Pfizer behave unethically by rushing to take advantage of an epidemic in Nigeria to test experimental drugs on children? Pfizer behaved unethically because the drug had not been approved to be administered on 100 childr
Introduction Due to the demand of the pure water, a research carried a group students have come up with a natural drinking mineral water that will meet many Australian population demands. Our water will be called Thirstier. Thirstier will be introduced in the market for both office and home consumption. The charges of the product will vary according to the size of the bottle as from $1.5 per one liter bottle. From the research, thirstier drinking water will rapidly established itself in the major Australian towns as well as in the rural areas. Thirstier will be produced under local retail channels to enable all people in Australia to access the product. Product Description Thirstier bottle water is sourced from crystal clear springs and pristine glaciers from untapped forests with absolute purity and natural ingredients. Apart from this, the water manufacturing will be carried out under careful scientific scrutiny that results into clean purified bottled water with the natural taste. Our water will be distributed across our retail shops for further product channeling into the small shops in the villages. Our logistics will allow equitable mineral water accessibility to all our customers in prices as well as geographical accessibility. Our brand name across Australia will remain thirstier mineral water. Our product is aimed at satisfying our customers’ needs with quality and at affordable price. Fig1. Thirstier Water Bottles. Australian Market Analysis Information taken from different Geographical Survey Information (GSI) and other marketing sources has shown that the consumption of mineral water across the country is growing annually at a 10 percent rate. This translates to an increase of one hundred thousand potential customers in every million people who consume mineral water annually. However, this is never the real picture in the market as the influences of substitute products also play a lot in market demand (Saperstings 47). We expect an annual expansion of fifteen percent in the market with a profit margin compound of 120 percent interest. Market size Through the GIS information, trade association, customer surveys and financial data from market operators we gathered our estimate size is to cover 20 million customers in Australia. This figure, however, marks our baseline and we expect to serve above two hundred and fifty million in five years. Past trends show that we will be able to get more customers under aggressive product promotion. Growth Rate Mineral water Companies in Australia have shown a sigmoid growth curve in for the past years. This is based on several internal and external factors of in market influencing this market. The changes in consumers’ taste and economic are the major players in the growth of mineral water market. The current economical stability in australia also is a sign higher marketing of highland water. Fig2. Graph of Mineral Water Growth Trends in Australia. From the g
Coronavirus disease is a rapidly growing worldwide pandemic due to severe pulmonary and syndrome coronavirus 2, henceforth increased pessimism and high loss of lives. It was first discovered in Wuhan (China) in a cluster of pneumonia patients with acute respiratory illness. The pandemic presents an unrivaled challenge to public healthcare and food systems (Alcendor, 2020). As governments try to curb this scourge through border closures, trade restrictions, and confinement measures, it has crippled economies. Beyond impacting the economy and healthcare, it has debilitating effects on many families globally. Disparities in knowledge, attitudes, and practices (KAPs) levels exist regarding COVID. White people are perceived to likely have high knowledge and confidence associated with a high level of education and income compared to their non-white counterparts, who were likely to have a low level of education and attitude but are viewed as high practice responders (Alcendor, 2020). Race, sex, education, income, health insurance status, and political views are all associated with KAPs. Hispanic and African- Americans have a higher infection rate and the number of deaths, despite being minority races. African-Americans had many deaths in Chicago and Louisiana despite being a minority, consisting of roughly a third of the population. These undermine the social determinants in health, socio-economic disparities, and prevalent racial disparities in health outcomings in the USA. In NEW YORK, 34% of COVID-related deaths were Hispanics, who consist of almost a third of the population (Alobuia et al., 2020). Concerning knowledge of COVID, a higher percentage of white people had a slightly higher knowledge than Hispanics or African-Americans, who scored lower in a study done by the Kaiser Family Foundation “KFF Coronavirus poll” conducted between 11 and 15 march 2020 on people living in the USA. It’s, therefore, easy to say a majority of White people had exposure to information on COVID compared to their Hispanic and African-American counterparts. The socio-demographical racial disparities are evident as areas with a high population of Hispanics and African-Americans lacked the correct knowledge on the COVID virus. Univariate analysis shows that African-Americans and Hispanics have a higher attitude towards COVID, positive or negative, than the White race. These can be highly attributed to the higher number of white people with higher health insurance than other races in the US. Similarly, income highly