PAGODA.COM CASE STUDY WRITE UP July 14‚ 2012 Executive Summary Pagoda.com‚ an internet service provider‚ needs to make a decision as to whether or not the company should outsource its online help desk service to a firm in New Delhi‚ India. Pagoda.com caters to individual consumers and small businesses who require a high level of service and are willing to pay a premium for it. Pagoda.com offers state-of-the-art email applications and web building
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General Guidelines for Case Write-up Why Cases? • Case studies contain real or hypothetical business situations. • Provide tools to effectively: -Apply theories to real business situations -Generate solutions to real business problems Steps to Complete a Case Report • Read the case carefully • Determine the main problem and any associated problems • Establish the important relevant facts • Analyze the situational factors (external‚ internal)
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Aim: To investigate the effect of skin sensitivity in response to cold temperature in different parts of the body by timing the maximum amount of time in which ice-pack can be held to that area. Hypothesis: If the layer of skin is relatively thin‚ the nerve response to cold will be the fastest‚ increasing the skin’s sensitivity. This therefore means that the fastest responses to cold will be in the face‚ and specifically the nose. The skin consists of 3 main layers; the epidermis‚ dermis and
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eReading: Amazon’s Kindle Case Write-Up In 2007‚ when the average consumer was inundated with a multitude of choices relating to their entertainment options‚ Amazon had just released the Kindle‚ a new electronic reader. Amazon had been extremely secretive in the lead up to the launch‚ and there was a tremendous amount of concern regarding how the Kindle would affect the publishing industry. From the brick and mortar bookstores‚ to textbook manufacturers to the I-Phone‚ any company involved in
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Q.2 Who are the key players at Kimura in this purchase? What are their respective roles and interests? At Kimura K.K.‚ the buying center‚ the players in this purchase are‚ first of all‚ Mr. Yutaka Kimura‚ the actual President and son of the founder of the company. He was very influential in Japan and‚ although the fierce competition in the market‚ he was known for keeping close contact with his main competitors. He had a very well defined strategy for Kimura K.K. – he wanted to double the company
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Chapter 1- 2 CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION: THEMES IN THE STUDY OF LIFE OBJECTIVES Exploring Life on Its Many Levels 1. Briefly describe the unifying themes that characterize the biological sciences. 1. The cell an organism’s basic unit of structure and function 2. Heritable information: the inheritance of biological information in the form of DNA which is encoded in the nucleotide sequence of DNA. 3. Emergent properties: emerge as a result of interaction among components at the
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Gadget Toys Case Write-Up Gadget Toy Company is faced with a choice between two options to reduce project time for their new toy line. Gadget must cut down project time in order to meet their Christmas deadline that is 19 weeks away. Analysis shows that there are two critical paths for the current process‚ which is 20 weeks long and includes the following critical activities: obtain funding approval (A)‚ finalize engineering (B)‚ build dies/tools (D)‚ raw material delivery (K)‚ initial production
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a thermometer. The control group is the water. The constants are the Stove top and amount of water used in each solution the starting temperature of the water and the Pot. 1. Pour 2 cups of water in the pot add 1 tablespoon of sugar then stir it up until all sugar is dissolved. 2. Turn on the stove‚ set the stove to it’s highest setting‚ place the pot on and time it with a stopwatch. Record the time and temperature of the solution as soon as it begins to boil. Record the data on your table.
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Gone Rural Case Write-Up 11/19/14 1. How would you advise Ms. Thorne concerning growing her organization‚ being financially viable and achieving her mission? In order to grow her organization‚ our group advises that Ms. Thorne invest a total of R1 million in new additional facilities to double the operating capacity of the company. In order to grow the company and expand into foreign markets‚ the company needs to build another facility. It was made clear that the limiting factor in production
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Abstract For this lab the rate of photosynthesis was analyzed upon plant leaves. A sample of a light exposed and a not-light exposed leave were used to clearly identify the role of sunlight in the process of producing and storing energy. Aim We are trying to find proof‚ to demonstrate the necessity of light and chlorophyll in the process of photosynthesis. Background Photosynthesis occurs in organisms which contain chlorophyll. It’s a process that involves the chloroplasts to synthesize glucose
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