product development‚ market development and diversification. ● Distinguish between different diversification strategies (related and conglomerate diversification) and evaluate diversification drivers. ● Assess the relative benefits of vertical integration and outsourcing. ● Analyse the ways in which a corporate parent can add or destroy value for its portfolio of business units. ● Analyse
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Static or Dynamic CheckPoint May 6‚ 2011 Static or Dynamic * As a network administrator for a company‚ you want to configure an IP route between two routers. Of static and dynamic routing‚ which is more appropriate? A router is a device that connects two LANs or WANs together. It has the ability to determine the best known route to send packets to a destination. The factors used to determine the best known route include not only the fastest route‚ but the most efficient. By using
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Financial Forecasting CheckPoint FIN/200 Axia College of University of Phoenix Write a 200- to 300-word explanation of the reasons the following types of companies would need a financial forecast: brand new company‚ family-owned company‚ and a long-standing corporation. The reason type of companies such as brand new companies‚ family-owned companies‚ and long-standing companies would need a financial forecast is to develop projected financial statements; a series of pro forma. The information
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Checkpoint: Image Makeover • Joe‚ a geeky‚ shy‚ unconfident high school senior‚ wants to remake his image when he goes away to college. What strategies must he use to change the way others perceive him? Can they work? Why? Joe should first and foremost implement changes to improve his self-esteem and self-perception. In doing so he can change the way he perceives himself in order to effectively change the way others perceive him. Joe can begin with intra-personal communication. Engaging
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CheckPoint: TJX Companies The data theft that TJX Companies experienced was caused by using the Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) encryption system. The WEP had become easy for hackers to navigate and had become quite out of date. TJX also failed to properly encrypt data on many of the employee computers that were using the wireless network‚ and did not have an effective firewall. The company had also purchased additional security programs that were not installed correctly. An alternative to the
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CheckPoint: Fiber Research 1. What is the function of fiber in the body? 2. What are some examples of food sources of dietary fiber? 3. What is the difference between soluble and insoluble fiber? 4. What are the fiber recommendations for children versus adults‚ according to the article? 5. What did you learn about fiber that you were not aware of prior to reading this information? The main function that fiber does in your body is help the digestive system regulate itself. Fiber also helps
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lives. For example‚ vertical influences‚ as in families‚ want their offspring to be more like them. Our horizontal influences‚ as in society and foreign traits not given by a parent‚ drift one’s offspring away from the world they know. Is it possible to become exactly as we are expected to be by our parents and society? No. It is impossible to know the outcome of our identities no matter how we are raised. There are both positive and negative influences of the vertical and horizontal identity that a
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In Carol Taylor’s 1970 book In Horizontal Orbit: Hospitals and the Cult of Efficiency‚ it is argued that the built environment of a hospital has the ability to define a hospital inhabitant’s personhood. "The hospital takes custody of the patient’s person‚ arranges to charge the patient for services rendered . . .sees to it that the patient is cared for and fed . . . and schedules the patient’s journeys to and from machines that will be used to diagnose and treat him." Reference - double click to
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Profitability Ratios Return on Capital Employed (ROCE) or Return on Equity (ROE) Numerator – the net profit or income‚ usually taken before tax. Capital Employed or Shareholders Equity - Designed to indicate the effective use of the shareholders capital in the business with respect ot the net profits that they have generated over the period of concern. Net Profit/Income Percentage or Return on Sales Helps to identify the impact of administrative‚ selling and distribution costs on profit
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High Performance SQL Server Workloads on Hyper-V Windows Server 2008 R2 Technical White Paper Published: May‚ 2010 Applies to: Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2‚ Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2‚ Microsoft System Center Introduction: This white paper describes the advantages of deploying Microsoft® SQL Server® database application workloads to a virtualization environment using Microsoft Windows® Server® 2008 R2 Hyper-V™. It demonstrates that Hyper-V provides the performance and scalability
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