au/modsim2011 Reflections on case studies‚ modelling and theory building M. Mogliaa‚ K. Alexanderb‚ P. Perezc Affiliations: a Urban and Industrial Water Research Program‚ CSIRO Land and Water‚ Victoria‚ b CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences‚ Canberra‚ ACT‚ Australia c SMART Infrastructure Facility‚ University of Wollongong‚ New South Wales‚ Email: magnus.moglia@csiro.au This paper provides a discussion on how case study research fits into the bigger picture of theory building in the social sciences. In particular
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Capabilities Analysis What is it? Capabilities analysis helps clarify the major sets of activities‚ skills‚ and resources that drive value to customers. When do we use it? Capabilities analysis can be useful at the time of strategy formulation—when firms are assessing which strategic options are currently feasible—and may be included in a broader process of determining strengths‚ weaknesses‚ opportunities‚ and threats (SWOT). In addition‚ capabilities assessment can be used as an initial
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Professor’s Name: Dr. D. Wadden Group 2: Class Name: BUSI 2231 05 Applied Marketing Date: Wednesday‚ February 12‚ 2014 Hilton HHonor Worldwide Case Analysis Paper Defining the issues There is increased level of competition within Hotel industry and this has made the cost of operation an important aspect in management. Sales and marketing department needs to register and identify market development programs and various demands from customers. There are issues surrounding dynamic pricing which
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Amazon Case Study 1. What technology services does Amazon provide? What are the business advantages to Amazon and to subscribers of these services? What are the disadvantages to each? What kinds of businesses are likely to benefit from these services? Amazon provides cloud utility computing‚ also known as on-demand computing when they introduced their services Simple Storage Service (S3) and Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). With these two services‚ Amazon provides a pay-as-you-go model of
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Nichole Galindez AMH 2010 American History 31 October 2012 Nichole Galindez AMH 2010 American History 31 October 2012 Westward Expansion of the United States To what extent is it accurate to claim that the ideal of manifest destiny was a motivating factor in the western expansions of the United States? The 1840s was a time of great territorial expansion during which the United States fought to annex Texas‚ acquire the Oregon territory‚ and conquer California and New Mexico from Mexico
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Hilton Hotels: Brand differentiation through CRM ¿Qué razones llevan a Hilton a desarrollar e implantar OnQ? • Hilton’s aggressive expansion strategy that made it one of the biggest hotel chains worldwide with the acquisition of Promus‚ reaching nearly 1‚700 properties. At this point in time‚ the management decided that a company of this size would need a tool to handle all its internal information and operations. • The need for an integrated solution with a centrally managed access
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Westward expansion affected the US and surrounding countries a lot. There were many causes of westward expansion and the consequences where big. Either way the american west was significant for many reasons even though the expansion started a war against mexico‚ but at least it lead to people starting to debate about slavery. Firstly‚ There were many causes of people moving to the american west. Causes like the California Gold Rush which was a major factor in expansion west of Mississippi. Also
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Strategic Management Journal Strat. Mgmt. J.‚ 21: 1105–1121 (2000) DYNAMIC CAPABILITIES: WHAT ARE THEY? KATHLEEN M. EISENHARDT* and JEFFREY A. MARTIN Department of Management Science and Engineering‚ Stanford University‚ Stanford‚ California‚ U.S.A. This paper focuses on dynamic capabilities and‚ more generally‚ the resource-based view of the firm. We argue that dynamic capabilities are a set of specific and identifiable processes such as product development‚ strategic decision making‚ and
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LANG 202 – Textbook evaluation activity Choose a beginning or intermediate language textbook for your target language. I recommend that you use the book you taught from in the fall or the one you are using this quarter‚ but you are not required to use one of those. Name of textbook: Deutsch: Na klar! Level 102 1. First look for the presence of the target culture in the textbook... a. Does the textbook present mostly “Culture” or mostly “culture” or a good balance of both
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to Mandate Electronic Textbooks: I am senator Slover and I stand firmly as affirmation on the bill to mandate electronic textbooks. Electronic textbooks will be the answer to economic struggles in schools all across California. Not only will this action cut down expenses on paper‚ textbooks‚ and the fees for missing textbooks‚ but it will help make money for other departments of education. A study‚ by ALA.org‚ comparing prices of textbooks and an e-book shows that a textbook is approximately double
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