A production concept is the oldest of the concepts in business. Business concerned itself primarily with production‚ manufacturing‚ and efficiency issues. It holds that consumers will prefer products that are widely available and inexpensive. Managers focusing on this concept concentrate on achieving high production efficiency‚ low costs‚ and mass distribution. They assume that consumers are primarily interested in product availability and low prices. This orientation makes sense in developing countries
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BUSINESS PROCESS REENGINEERING AT THE HOSPITALS: A CASE STUDY AT SINGAPORE HOSPITAL Arun Kumar and Linet Ozdamar School of Mechanical & Production Engineering Nanyang Technological University 50 Nanyang Avenue‚ SINGAPORE-639798 Email: makumar@ntu.edu.sg KEYWORDS Business process reengineering‚ Healthcare. ABSTRACT As health care costs increase‚ there is a need for healthcare service providers to look for ways to contain costs and to achieve a higher efficiency at their operating facilities without
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material KENYA METHODIST UNIVERSITY DLM BOOKLET FAULTY : COMPUTING AND INFORMATICS DEPARTMENT : COMPUTER SCIENCE COURSE CODE COURSE NAME LECTURER CONTACT : CISY422/BBIT333 : ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE : ROBERT MUTUA MURUNGI : 0710 480 450‚ r_mutua@yahoo.com 1st edition ©2012 Artificial Intelligence by Robert Mutua Murungi – I.T Lecturer 1 Kenya Methodist University DLM instructional material KENYA METHODIST UNIVERSITY P.O. BOX 267 Meru 60200 Kenya Tel. +254-020-2118423/24/25/26/27
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QUESTION Running late for his exciting evening law class‚ Sam desperately seeks out a car park in the CBD of Melbourne‚ state of Victoria Australia. He spots the car park operated by Citipark Ltd. Sam drives up a ramp which has raised concrete barriers on either side. As it is rush hour‚ there are a few cars in front of him and soon some more line up behind him. Sam stopped his car at the barrier entrance of the car park which had a mechanical arm preventing cars moving into the parking
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MC; 6pages of short answers Review – labs • • Travel over the internet; TCP/UDP is from end to end‚ IP is in the middle‚ between hops o Write email – this is data o Data is sent to the transport layer and is SEGMENTED‚ adds s/d PORT # and sequence number o Network layer turns these into packets with s/d ip address o Data link layer turns these into frames with s/d mac address for default gateway o Frames go to switch and switch checks source mac and learns it if it doesn’t o Switch
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HotOrNot was sold for $20 million‚ how do we justify the price of this acquisition? In order for this acquisition to make logical sense‚ we would have to find out whether the benefits outweigh the costs. It is clear that in HotOrNot case‚ the costs were minimal as there were bandwidth costs in the beginning‚ and this cost would decline and close to zero as time went by. therefore we shall focus on benefit for now. To begin with‚ it is understandable that the sources
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has now decided to cash out‚ forcing Natureview to increase sales revenue to $20 million by 2002 in order to position itself at the most attractive value level for acquisition or to attract other venture capitalists’ investment. Although its old business model was successful‚ the pressure now required the company to make a decision between whether to stay in natural foods channel or to enter selected supermarkets. Previously marketed through the natural foods channel‚ Natureview has developed
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Stantec Incorporated was a sole proprietorship founded in 1954 in a 250 square foot office in Edmonton by Dr. Don Stanley. It was initially named D.R. Stanley and Associates. In 1955‚ Stanley hired a railway engineer named Herb Roblin and a former chief bridge engineer named Louis Grimble. The company was renamed to Stanley‚ Grimble and Robin Ltd. In 1983‚ Stanley appointed Ron Triffo as president and COO‚ while Stanley retained his role as CEO and chair. The company formed an urban development company
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An Assignment of Business Ethics & Corporate Governance CASE STUDIES Module I BHOPAL GAS TRAGEDY December 3‚ 2009‚ marked the 25th anniversary of the world’s worst ever industrial disaster - the gas leak that occurred at Union Carbide India Ltd’s (UCIL) pesticide plant in Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh‚ India). The tragedy that instantly killed more than 3‚000 people and left thousands injured and affected for life‚ occurred when water entered Methyl Isocyanate (MIC) storage tank No. 610
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Cloud Intelligence. There are 3 new things in the cloud intelligence compared to the old business intelligence. 1. Elasticity Dynamic on-demand pro-visioning of resources. For cloud computing‚ this term has mostly been used in relation to scaling up/down the performance‚ e.g.‚ the number of processing nodes. While this form of elasticity is obviously also relevant for cloud intelligence‚ an even more important type of elasticity is the ability to dynamically bring in new data sources to meet
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