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E-commerce business practices in Orion Energy Systems- advantages The modern business environment is quite complex and requires business managers to adopt business strategies that can help firms thrive in the market. Firms compete for customers in the market. Therefore, the ability of a firm to thrive in the market depends on its ability to adopt and enforce modern business technologies since these technologies have been found to be critical in business positioning. As presented in the case, Orion Energy Systems is a company that has hastened its business pace through the adoption of the e-commerce platform in enhancing its business practices. Having molded its business practices around the production of sustainable and cost-effective energy solutions to business firms, the firm has focused on broadening its business through the adoption and deployment of e-commerce in promoting the marketing of its products and services. The focus on e-commerce was informed by the increase in the demand for the products and services provided by the company, thus the company realized the need to increase efficiency of its sales force to successfully reach and serve customers in an effective and efficient way (CWR Mobility Website, 2011). According to CWR Mobility Website (2011), the e-commerce platform in Orion Energy is based on the CWR communication tool from the Microsoft Dynamics CRM company. The tool enhances sales management and sales experience by the marketing team of the company. The aim of the CWR tool is to automate the sales functions of Orion through enabling the sales team to access the sales accounts and contact information. The tool also enables the sales team of the company to access a substantial amount of information on all the prevailing opportunities in the
Introduction The world today is full of controversial conflicts, various issues, and unsolved problems. The origin of some conflicts lies deep in the history of humanity, while others have emerged not so long ago. “There is a potentially conflictual relationship between human security and the struggles for control over land, access to mineral wealth, and justice despite the legacies of colonialism”, -these words prove the never-ending nature of the conflict. (Wenona Giles, Jennifer Hyndman, 2004, p.204) However, to solve these problems it is essential to find the real reasons and try to understand them, and then find the right solutions and apply them. The Importance of the Israel-Palestinian Conflict One of such never-ending conflicts is the Israel – Palestinian conflict. It is well-known fact, that the role of other countries like the United States of America, Great Britain, and many others, and even such organizations like the United Union, play a significant role in handling the Israel-Palestinian conflict. Moreover, the role of the USA is the most significant, however, the question arises: “Is the influence of the USA positive or negative in this conflict?” “The Arab-Israeli conflict has been a notable element of the international relations of the Middle East for more than a century. Its evolution has been the subject of substantial attention and has generated numerous official and semi-official documents and a voluminous descriptive and analytical literature, both popular and academic,”- these words show the importance of the issue in history. (Reich, 1995, p. 1). “The Jewish-Arab conflict over that part of the Middle East referred to by various people either as the land of Israel or as Palestine has been discussed and debated widely from political, social, economic, and humanitarian perspectives”- this statement in the article “Philosophical Perspectives on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict” again highlights the ongoing debate about the conflict today. (Kapitan, 1997, p 244). All these articles and statements deal with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and show its impact on the world’s history today. Israel-Palestinian Conflict: Understanding Historic Trends So, it is important to investigate the history of these two countries and try to find the root of the conflict. “The Arab-Israeli conflict, the central issue of which is the status of a territory known as Palestine, has existed for more than a century. Arab nationalism began to take form in the 19th century. Zionism also had its origins as a political ideology in the 19th century, but its antecedents are in the Biblical period. The competition between Jews and Arabs can be traced to Abraham and his two sons, Ishmael and Isaac, who founded their respective lines of descent.”- The extract from book “Arab-Israeli Conflict and Conciliation: A Documentary History” shows, that this conflict is very long-lasting and the main reason of the conflict can be found in the Bible. (Reich, 1995, p. 2) So, it can be understood that
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is a contemporary conflict that deserves to be included in a series of historical works entitled ‘Contesting the Past’. Although, amidst disputes, this war has been considered the single most bitterly contentious communal struggle on earth today. Any attempt to recount its main events in chronological order is bound to be contested by someone. This is despite the fact that the account may be neutral in intent, purged of any editorializing, and without passing judgment on motives, causes, or effects. There exists a wide range of ways of understanding and representing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. These efforts, whether in the realms of politics, lobbying, media, academic, or the general public, are often reflections of the highly contentious conflict itself, including its bitterness and complexity. A familiar pattern is the presentation of one side’s ‘true’ account as against the other party’s lies, myths, or propaganda (Salinas 86). This essay documents the chronology of the current Israeli-Palestinian conflict through an overview of the major events that led to the feud. The scope of the essay also examines the justification of the rationales for violence cited by Israelis and Palestinians. The essay will also look at the validation of the deployment of violence by either side. The modern conflict is usually linked to a number of events that took place in the mid twentieth century. It began on 29 November 1947, after the passing of a resolution to divide Palestine into two self-governing states-one Jewish, the other Arab (Milton-Edwards 144). Jerusalem was to be held under an international rule, with its inhabitants given the right to citizenships in either of the two formed states. Thirty three members of the UN agreed with the resolution while thirteen voted against, and ten abstained. Among those who abstained included Great Britain, which had ruled Palestine since the early 1920s. To the Jews, this was the accomplishment of a longtime desire for national renaissance in the familial land of their birth. For Arabs, it was an absolute calamity, an act of disloyalty by the international community that gave up a vital part of the Arabs to invaders. Israelis celebrated in their cities’ streets. Contrary to this, violence broke in the Arab capitals. The latter marked the beginning of the Palestine war. This war is considered the most significant Middle Eastern armed conflict since the demolition of the Ottoman Empire. The war was divided into two stages (Gunderson 32). The first phase commenced at the close of November 1947. This was exactly a day following the implementation of the Partition Resolution. The first phase of the war ended on mid May 1948. This was after the end of the British Mandate. The war was basically civilian in nature. It was conducted under surveillance and irregular involvement of the British Mandatory authorities. The second phase started on the night of 14 May 1948 (Milton-Edwards 150). This was shortly after the declaration of the state of Israel. It entailed a determ
Good Leaders: Definition Being a good leader is a very difficult task; in fact, in some cases, it is excruciatingly difficult to sustain the working system within an organization or a team. Leadership styles may vary depending on the situation to which they are applied, yet most leaders share common characteristics. As a rule, a leader is seen as a person driven by the willingness to encourage innovations and positive change (Chauhan 2016). In addition, a leader is expected to motivate and inspire people, promoting their development (Northouse 2018). Therefore, a leader should exhibit character traits such as honesty, ability to collaborate, conflict and time management skills, commitment, and decision-making. It is absolutely critical for a leader to be able to encourage innovative thinking since the specified ability will define the efficacy of a team and the levels of its performance. Example of Leadership Examples of effective and strong leadership are very numerous when considering world history. For instance, Mahatma Gandhi can be seen as a very effective leader since he managed to motivate people to make a significant social and political change (Dhiman 2018). Despite the difficulties that his political campaign entailed, he managed to retain his political beliefs in the face of adversity and eventually lead India to freedom from the British colonial rule (Kalu 2016). Gandhi was a rather unusual leader given his strong stance on the subject of nonviolence as the main force behind a political movement (Crosby 2017). Nonetheless, his passion and determination helped him to attain his goal and lead the country to freedom, encouraging a moral and spiritual change within its population. One might consider Gandhi to be lacking efficiency due to its peaceful nature, yet his determination made his leadership approach not only worthwhile but also unique. Reference List Chauhan, K 2016, Developing leadership qualities in changing environment , Horizon Books, Traverse City, MI. Crosby, G 2017, Leadership can be learned: clarity, connection, and results , Taylor & Francis, New York, NY. Dhiman, S 2018, Bhagavad Gītā and leadership: a catalyst for organizational transformation , Palgrave MacMillan, New York, NY. Kalu, KN 2016, Citizenship: identity, institutions, and the postmodern challenge , Routledge, New York, NY. Northouse, PG 2018, Leadership: theory and practice , 8th edn, SAGE Publications, Thousand Oaks, CA.
There are certain norms accepted in a society which regulate human behaviour. If a persons activity goes against these rules, his/her actions are considered to be deviant. To understand it better, five deviant, though not illegal acts, will be analysed.  1. Eating only with fingers at some restaurants or public places. There are several reasons for taking this action as deviant. First of all, there are table manners accepted in a society which determine how and with the help of what certain food should be eaten. Moreover, there are norms of behaviour in a society which consider eating with fingers to be an absolutely unacceptable and deviant act which can be rather disgusting. However, it is just the question of culture. It is known, that some peoples have absolutely different table manners. Japanese people eat with the help of chopsticks while people in Asia very often use only their fingers.  2. Drinking alcohol or smoking while being pregnant. It is widely known that a woman, who is going to give birth soon, should refuse the usage of this element as they can damage a fetus or result in some serious diseases. Such behaviour is absolutely unacceptable, and society condemns and judges would be mothers, who drink alcohol or smoke, considering these actions to be deviant. Moreover, very often, this behaviour can be taken as some defections of the maternal instinct as a woman does not care about her child. Children health and life are appreciated in all cultures; that is why there is hardly a place in the world where such behaviour can be taken as normal and acceptable.  3. Moreover, abortion is also very often treated as deviant behaviour. However, it is very disputable question. There are different points of view on this issue, nevertheless, very often it is taken as a murder of a child. Though it is legal in the UK, the USA and Europe, there are several states which provide punishment for this procedure. There is no use denying the fact that this issue is connected with culture and moral. There is a question whether we can consider fetus to be living being or not. Besides, there are no folks or peoples which consider this procedure to be absolutely acceptable or absolutely wrong as it is very disputable and complicated issue.  4. The next deviant behaviour is a deliberate disregard of some cultural peculiarities or norms of behaviour of some minorities or representatives of other folks or nationalities. Very often, these actions lead to the violation of fee
Introduction Human health is an important resource in any population. However humans are always exposed to health hazards that could be from the outside environment, workplaces, homes and from other organisms. One of the greatest accidents that have resulted in health problems is the Chernobyl disaster. This accident was caused by a flawed reactor that was being operated by inexperienced personnel. As a result, there was a serious explosion that released some radioactive material into the environment. Two of the workers died that same day the accident happened and 28 others followed in a span of few weeks after the incident. Their deaths were attributed to acute poisoning by the radiation. It is presumed that mistakes done by the operatives were due to the isolation that resulted from the cold war. Ukraine in 1986, was still suffering from insecurity risk culture. As a result, inadequately trained personnel found their way into dealing with serious health hazard industries like working in radioactive reactors. The result was a disaster. The accident razed the Chernobyl reactor and caused serious health injuries to those who were exposed. The diagnosis of the bodies of the people who died indicated coronary thrombosis. Later on, over 237 individuals were originally suspected to be experiencing symptoms of acute radiation syndrome due to the exposure. The deadly syndrome was afterwards established in 134 more inhabitants. Background After the cold war, many nations were determined to be secure, armed and find military supremacy. Investing in nuclear was highly considered as the trend towards achieving that kind of independence. Ukraine was one of the nations that ventured in nuclear reaction plants. The Chernobyl reactor was close to the Belarus boarder only about 20km away. At the time of the accident, there were four reactors (Rahu, 2003, p. 296). The incidence took place in 1986 on 26 th April. The operators dealing with reactor 4 decided to run some test but things got out of control due to deficiencies in engineering skills. They were in fact operating the reactor in unstable conditions and improperly. As a consequence, power surge occurred causing the fuel to overheat and so leading to a series of explosions which damaged the reactor badly (Breidablik et al, 2008, p. 74). Radioactive material released into the atmosphere affected several people and resulted into death of 30 people. The radio active material was released in a period of about 10 days despite the efforts by the government to drop neutron absorbing materials in the reactor (Rahu, 2003, p. 296). Later there was another 5 day period of decreasing release of these dangerous radiation
Microeconomic advantage of IT Carr’s view that investment on IT infrastructure has only macroeconomic advantages is not true as it has both microeconomic and macroeconomic benefits. In macroeconomic sense, investment in IT impacts on the patterns of production, trade, employment as well as investment while in microeconomic sense, it changes business activities. IT enhances a firm’s capacity to adopt e-commerce and besides, they use it to enhance reservations and package-tracking systems among other uses. These help such companies which have adopted innovative application of IT achieve particular operating advantages which could help them achieve positioning and in turn gain dominance in the market over its competitors. Comparison of growth of railroads and IT Carr’s comparison of the growth of railroads in 1860s and IT in 1990s is fair both terms of rates of growth and economic impacts. Both of them came with initial advantages which made firms rush to implement systems which could help them take advantage of the new technologies. However, these strategies led to overproduction of goods and availability of services which in turn resulted to surge of the same in the market. Both of them therefore directly contributed to drop in price levels in the different periods which greatly impacted on profits gains by firms. Other sectors which have also raised the operation expenses include the motor-vehicle industry. Recent IT investment Where I work, the company has recently adopted a virtual meeting technology from Webex Company to provide webconferencing services for the firm. This was a strategic investment meant to help cut costs on travel expenses especially between the company’s branches and headquarter by the company’s corporate managers as well as division personnel. It will also ensure cost reductions on travel and entertainment expenses incurred during trips by the marketing personnel to meet its major customers. By adopting this technology, the company will lower its operating costs and therefore raise profits. Summary Information Technology matters a lot for corporations and nations globally. It has both macroeconomic and microeconomic advantages to firms and nations and any firm or country that does not invest in IT infrastructure is left in business operations. The distribution networks have increased and prices of important IT functionality have dropped making it affordable. It is therefore essential for companies to be mo
The CSI Effect is a theory that crime television shows have a certain impact on viewers and the criminal justice system. In particular, crime shows, mass media, and television certainly have some effect on many areas of life. It is believed that in 1975, about 40% of all programs on television were crime and detective series (Cole et al., 2017). In this context, it is important to note that in 2002, US prosecutors considered the possibility of applying the knowledge of CSI as an example for real investigations (Cole et al., 2017). However, around the same time, it became clear that CSI has a detrimental effect on the criminal justice system and the law rather than a positive one. Thus, the public, seeing the romanticized image of police officers, prosecutors, and detectives, acquired somewhat inflated expectations. Among other things, the high expectations of the population are also associated with the image of the working process of criminologists. The public is used to seeing dark laboratories with much modern equipment on TV (Freetheinnocent, 2007). In addition, they saw how criminologists, with the help of the study of a single hair, solved the most complicated cases. However, in practice, the investigation is not always as successful as in the series. Moreover, even the laboratories themselves and the research process look different. In this context, the public has come to expect too much from criminologists and the criminal justice system because of the CSI Effect. Finally, the CSI has had a certain impact not only on justice workers but also on the criminals themselves. Thus, there is a case in which the criminal in 2011, after the murder, returned to the crime scene to remove his DNA prints from all the surfaces of the house (Vicary et al., 2017). In that sense, it was shows like CSI that told him that DNA could lead to finding him. This particular case demonstrates that the effect of CSI is not always good, as criminals can also be viewers of such shows. Thus, it becomes possible to conclude that the CSI Effect is present among the average audience and law enforcement officers and criminals.
Executive Summary The Vanderbilt University Center is one of the leading healthcare centers in the country. It has managed over the years to align both its organization culture as well as its strategies to its vision. The company strategy involves gaining competitive advantage through research, hiring exceptional personnel, investing in up-to-date equipments and opening up as many center as possible while collaborating with other clinics. From the fitness landscape analysis it can be noted that the healthcare landscape has recently taken a positive change. The introduction of the new healthcare bill, consumer perception and efficient operations of the hospital all combine to create a sustainable environment for the hospital. From the boid analysis, the hospital has a strong hold on its consumer thus is likely to be profitable for a long time. The industry evolution modeling shows that since Vanderbilt collaborates with other professionals and has a good research department in addition to the medical school, the hospital is sustainable. The life cycle assessment from the hospital shows that the hospital has minimal waste and consumer satisfaction keep bringing back more and more customers. Reuse and recycling reduces cost while consumer satisfaction ensures that the company is operational for years to come. Finally, the compliance and innovation analysis shows that Vanderbilt is an Educational center as well as a research center. This fosters innovation critical for sustainability. Vanderbilt’s organizational culture revolves around research and development. Over the years it has proven time and time that it is a leader in developing new treatment methods and medical equipment. The economic trend of the company involves opening up medical centers around the country, using modern methods of treatment and ensuring that their patients are satisfied by their services. The company has been named one of the best in the country and therefore has an e