Executive Summary IBM and Accenture are both huge companies and uses five factor DuPont analysis to achieve a return on equity. IBM has a higher return on equity than Accenture‚ and therefore the management are more efficient in generating shareholder value per dollar invested. However both the companies are performing better than the industry average. IBM does also take lesser number of days to convert cash on hand compared to Accenture and industry average. But‚ Accenture is taking more days
Premium Balance sheet Financial ratios Corporate finance
Sustainable Architecture for a Sustainable Future Our environment today suffers from many issues. The most important one from a constructor’s point of view would be the resources depletion problem. Freshwater resources are declining‚ the soil is loosing its fertility‚ and there is a crucial shortage in basic minerals such as zinc‚ copper‚ and phosphorus. These deficiencies would definitely lead to a slowdown in construction growth. According to Rehan Ahmed (2012) construction is the less sustainable
Premium Green building Natural building Sustainable design
Sam Walton‚ a leader with an innovative vision‚ started his own company and made it into the leader in discount retailing that it is today. Through his savvy‚ and sometimes unusual‚ business practices‚ he and his associates led the company forward for thirty years. Today‚ four years after his death‚ the company is still growing steadily. Wal-Mart executives continue to rely on many of the traditional goals and philosophies that Sam’s legacy left behind‚ while simultaneously keeping one step ahead
Premium Management Strategic management Leadership
5/7/2015 Assessor Name: Paul | Learner Name: Abubakr Mohammed Assessor Name: Paul Mohammed Sustainable Construction Learner Name: Abubakr Table of Contents Task 1 (P1) Six features of the natural environment that suffer as a result of bad practice………..…. 3 Task 2 (P2) 4 different forms of global pollution arising from construction projects ……………….....5 Task 3 (P3) 4 different forms of global pollution arising from construction projects....‚‚‚‚‚‚‚‚‚‚‚‚‚‚‚‚
Premium Natural environment Construction Biodiversity
Project work thesis Knowledge based sustainable development-case Gilgit-Baltistan Pakistan. Spring Semester: 2010 Supervisor: Assistant professor Anders Avdic Author: Liaqut Ali E-mail Address: liaqut.alih091@student.oru.se 1 Acknowledgement I would like to extend many thanks to my Assistant professor and supervisor
Premium Knowledge management Aga Khan IV Aga Khan Development Network
In IBM: * Early 1990’s: decentralized geographic and functional departments * Mid-late 1990’s: Distribution and logistics functions centralized into a global organization with world-wide responsibility * Early 2000’s: merger of Customer Fulfillment‚ Procurement‚ Manufacturing‚ and Global Logistics/Distribution functions into a new global Integrated Supply Chain function * Result: cost savings of $5.6B in 2002 and $7B in 2003 * A Case study on IBM * IBM developed
Premium Supply chain management
Assignment On Analysis of Three Advertisements by a large Financial Products/ Services Marketer Date: 28 February‚ 2014 Prepared For: Shahriar Kabir Assistant Professor‚ IBA-JU Course Instructor Prepared By: Golam Tarek Hasan Id: 2012-01-045 Jahangir Nagar University Institute of Business Administration WMBA Programme‚ Spring 2014 FIN 513/MKT 512: Financial Products Marketing Analysis of the Advertisement of Eastern Bank Ltd NRB TVC 2009 At first a past television
Premium Bank Bangladesh Banking
Learning Objectives After studying this chapter‚ you should be able to: 1. Explain companywide strategic planning in its four steps 2. Discuss how to design business portfolios and develop growth strategies 3. Explain marketing’s role in strategic planning and how marketing works with its partners to create and deliver customer value 4. Describe the elements of a customer-driven marketing strategy and mix‚ and the forces that influence it 5. List the marketing management functions‚ including
Premium Marketing Strategic management
E.‚ Jimenez‚ T.‚ and Koole‚ G.‚ “On Optimal Call Admission Control in a ResourceSharing System‚” IEEE Transactions on Communications‚ 49‚ 9‚ 1659–1668 (2001). [2] Auto Rental News‚ “2011 U.S. Car Rental Market‚ Auto Rental News‚ Fact Book 2012‚” (2011)‚ http : //www.autorentalnews.com/f cr esources/Editorial/ARN − 6.pdf . [3] Barcelo‚ F.‚ Casares‚ V.‚ and Paradells‚ J.‚ “M/D/C Queue with Priority: Application to Trunked Mobile Radio Systems‚” Electronics Letters‚ 32‚ 1644–1645 (1996). Operations (2011)
Premium Customer Customer service
need to dosomething that we do not enjoy.Many people think that we should be true to ourselves‚ so that we should choose what weenjoy most‚ regardless of what other people think. For example‚ if we do not want tostudy anymore‚ just give up and try to do what we really want to such as being an artist or a dance. It is meaningless for us to continue studying if we have no talents and no interest in it.Somebody consider health as an excuse for not doing anything that they do not enjoy. For a person who
Premium Teacher School Lebanon, Tennessee