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Personal Navigation Devices

Personal navigation devices provide utility to the user by permitting the application of the device for both navigation and global positioning system functions. Many PDAs are capable of indicating the position of the user. The popularity of the PPNDs has increased with the increased employment of automobile navigation systems. There is a growing need for navigation with the increased complexity of transport infrastructure and mobility. Therefore, people are demanding Personal Navigation Devices to improve their mobility thus enabling better and accurate navigation.
PNDs have incorporated complex functions and feature a range of graphical user interfaces such ass maps, voice Continue reading...

Though the initial reaction anyone would get after reading the case study would be to say that exploiting negative cultural norms and values to promoting a product is unethical, the situation stated is much more complex than it seems to be at a first glance, having more facets.
However, for a person to even consider buying or trying any product, it must first of all fit in with their cultural norms and values. On the one hand, every country, culture, race has a norm of what is considered to be standard, superior, or beautiful/likeable in the present case. In Continue reading...

Business Case Analysis

Executive Summary
This is a case of Barrie Super Subs, a chain of over 300 restaurants situated across different locations in Canada. Discussions in this case will focus on one particular branch of Barrie Super Subs only. The team of workers that operate this particular branch of Barrie Super Subs is rather small. With only one chief restaurant manager, one assistant manager, and several part-time leaders, and a small team of part-time crews, the team has survived day to day restaurant operations without any hassle. In terms of profitability and sales, this Barrie Super Subs branch has been on Continue reading...

Fundamental challenges to protect organizational information and assets

Technological breakthrough has led to a revolution in digital media and it is essential for organizations to protect its data. The article “Missed Alarms and 40 Million Stolen Credit Card Numbers: How Target Blew It”, narrates the manner in which one of the leading organizations failed to respond to possible breach of information.
One of the fundamental challenges that firms face while striving to protect information and organizational assets is that tendency of its employees to dismiss warnings and display a lackadaisical attitude to investigate any kind of fraudulent activity going on by the misuse of technology. Another issue Continue reading...

4.8. The critical thinking issues that are being raised, in this case, includes the benefits and harmful effects that are brought about by the tourists. In one way, tourism is considered as an important thing within the city of Venice. Many people have been employed because of tourism. Almost every person within Venice works with the cruise passengers who are mainly tourists. Some of the available jobs that have been created because of tourism is taxi drivers and bar suppliers. Despite this, tourism can also result to harm effects within Venice. One of the major effect of tourism in Continue reading...

International and Comparative Human Resource Management

Barriers like governance forms and task structures are not the root of the problems within global collaborative ventures, so trying to change them does not improve collaborations.

Migratory knowledge moves quickly, but embedded knowledge moves slowly.

The organizational structure of knowledge architecture is unique to each company and is considered as embedded.
Tacit knowledge is difficult to communicate verbally or in written form; the degree of the tacitness of knowledge varies across societal contexts and national borders.
It is the degree of tacitness and the way the tacit knowledge is created, configured and employed that leads to asymmetrical knowledge transfer and operational barriers.
Asymmetry between two companies is Continue reading...

Individual Case Analyses

Background
The Men’s Wearhouse is a men’s tailored clothing business that was founded by George Zimmerman in 1973. He was then only 24 years old and started the store with an initial investment of $7000. He opened his first store in Houston. The business expanded and become successful leading to a significant increase in the share value of its stock. This was evidently clear in the summer of 1997 when George’s 3.2 million shares was worth about $100 million. A new store of TMW was opened at the San Francisco Bay Area in the early 1980s. Continue reading...

Capital Budgeting is found to be an effective part of finance management function, as it used specifically to analyze the level of feasibility of a project. Capital Budgeting has numerous options, which have the ability for the organizations to analyze the level of feasibility of a project. Some of the major types of capital budgeting tools that used by the organizations are

Net Present Value (NPV)

Internal Rate of Return (IRR)
Profitability Index (PI)
Accounting rate of return (ARR)
There is a case associated with this assignment of a company which is hypothetical names as Brody’s Sports LLC. The case divulged that Continue reading...

This case is about the relationships between two executives of Weaver-Yamazaki Pharmaceutical of Japan: Leonard Prescott, vice-president and general manager, and John Higgins, his executive assistant. Weaver-Yamazaki Pharmaceutical is joint subsidiary of the Weaver Pharmaceutical, the parent company. The former one was created in order to produce a part of Weaver’s product line and thus enter the Japanese market.
Though officially the subsidiary was headed by Shozo Suzuki who, as an executive vice president of Yamazaki, he limited his participation to determining basic policies. In fact, the company was managed by Prescott, assisted by Higgins, according to the Continue reading...

Human Resource Management is a broad topic that entails a lot. This means that a lot of importance must be attached to this. The case study in question (Fred Bailey: An Innocent Abroad) is a perfect example on how various forces may combine to have a major influence on production. This case study has been used in many fields to study concepts of human resource and business. To a large extent, the case covers these aspects as it gives the experience of an innocent person in a foreign land, the challenges that he faced and how he tackled these Continue reading...