Databases are important to businesses for several reasons. To boost operations they use communications‚ web‚ and database technologies. Databases are key in all functions relating to information storage and retrieval‚ and assists with marketing‚ customers service‚ financials‚ and logistics. They are also essential in the creation and maintenance of records for continuous usage and to generate reports from this information. For example‚ a company could store all customer information and ordering
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Comparing Two Similar Businesses Describe the history and core business of each company. Amazon was founded in 1994 by a man whose name is Jeff Bezos. Mr. Bezos originally started Amazon in his garage. He believed that only the internet had the ability to grant consumers the convenience of being able to browse a myriad selection of book titles in the shortest amount of time. In 1995 he started the website Amazon.com which was primarily an online book store at the time. “During the first 30 days
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Course Name: Level 4 HNC Business UNIT TITLE NO. AND TITLE: Unit 1 Business Environment Assignment No. and title: Assignment 1- Understanding the organisational purposes of businesses (DRAFT) Date Submitted 21st May 2012 Understanding the organisational purposes of business In this day and age all individuals will have some affiliation with a business organisation. Whether it be the company they work for‚ the retail store they purchase their groceries or the NHS dentist they attend
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Green marketing has been an important academic research topic since it came about (Coddington‚ 1993; Fuller‚ 1999; Ottman‚ 1994). Attention was drawn to the subject in the late 1970’s when the American Marketing Association organized the first ever workshop on ‘Ecological Marketing’ in 1975 which resulted in the first book on the subject‚ entitled‚ ‘Ecological Marketing’ by Henion and Kinnear in 1976. The first definition of ‘green marketing’ was according to Henion (1976); “the implementation
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Research paper On NEW ERA MARKETING: ENGAGING BUSINESSES Written by : Prof. Shikha Ajmera Associate Professor‚ Taxila Business School Email id : shiks_a@yahoo.com Contact No : 09351528049 New Era Marketing : Engaging Businesses Abstract Marketing; the lifeline of businesses truly gives zest to the corporates and makes a striking difference to the brand and its equity. The ethos of marketing keeps changing with the times. As the customer becomes more knowledgeable‚ the customer
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CORPORATE GOVERNANCE IN FAMILY BUSINESSES IN SERBIA PhD Katarina Djulic‚ Faculty of Economics‚ Finance and Administration‚ kdjulic@fefa.edu.rs MSc Tanja Kuzman‚ Faculty of Economics‚ Finance and Administration PhD Katarina Djulic is Assistant Professor at FEFA on subjects of Corporate Finance and Corporate Governance. She also works as Senior Consultant in KPMG Serbia. She worked as an Associate Operations Officer at the International Finance Corporation‚ World Bank Group‚ on the Corporate Governance
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There is no doubt that family businesses contribute significantly to the economic growth of any society today. In the United States‚ around 80% of all businesses are family-owned‚ generating 50% of the country’s annual GDP (Lank‚ 2000). Similarly‚ family businesses constitute as much as 70% of all UK businesses employing 50% of the country’s workforce (Institute for Small Business Affairs‚ 1999). However‚ not all family businesses are large; the majority of them are small and medium sized. This paper
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DIFFERENCES BETWEEN OFFLINE AND ONLINE BUSINESSES In the days of old‚ one had very limited option when it comes to starting a business. There was usually one route to go and that was your traditional old brick and mortar type of business or what is known as an offline business today. With technological advances‚ times have changed. One can now have a virtual business or what is better known as an online business. Having had the privilege to experience both side of the coin of owning
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computer-aided tasks are becoming an increasingly popular trend nowadays. The first generation of computers dates back to as early as the 1940 ’s. The computers of that time however proved to be a hassle just to run and maintain it to be of any use to businesses of the times. It was very huge‚ extremely sluggish and slow but worst of all‚ it was very expensive to build one (Take note that computers aren ’t commercially sold yet at the time). Not to mention its maintenance and running costs. Computers
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Section 1 – Organisational Purposes of Businesses Identifying the purpose of different variety of legal organisations‚ including corporations‚ governments‚ non-governmental organisations‚ international organisations‚ armed forces‚ charities‚ not-for-profit corporations‚ partnerships‚ cooperatives‚ and universities. A hybrid organisation is a body that operates in both the public sector and the private sector simultaneously‚ fulfilling public duties and developing commercial market activities
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