CENTRE FOR MICRO FINANCE at IFMR Business Correspondent Model: A Preliminary Exploration Report compiled by Binit Rath‚ Minakshi Ramji and Alexandra Kobishyn Published for the Microfinance India Summit‚ October 2009 Thanks are due to Dan Kopf‚ a former Research Associate at the Centre for Micro Finance (CMF)‚ and Upamanyu Dash (Summer Intern 2009‚ IIFM) who was closely involved in the Orissa case study. The entire research team expresses its gratitude to the staff at FINO‚ A Little World (ALW)
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Models and Theories of Change Review LDR/515 Week 2 Models and Theories of Change Review New technological advances have changed the way organizations are preparing for the future. Management must focus on the human implications resulting from the implementation of new technology and be prepared for resistance and human implications resulting from technological changes. The way management
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Models of the Atom: a Historical Perspective John Dalton Early Greek Theories • 400 B.C. - Democritus thought matter could not be divided indefinitely. • This led to the idea of atoms in a void. fire Democritus • 1800 -Dalton proposed a modern atomic model based on experimentation not on pure reason. All matter is made of atoms. Atoms of an element are identical. Each element has different atoms. Atoms of different elements combine in constant ratios to form compounds. • Atoms are rearranged
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McKinsey 7S Model This model was developed in the 1980’s by Robert Waterman‚ Tom Peters and Julien Philips whilst working for McKinsey and originally presented in their article " Structure is not Organisation". To quote them: "Intellectually all managers and consultants know that much more goes on in the process of organizing than the charts‚ boxes‚ dotted lines‚ position descriptions‚ and matrices can possibly depict. But all too often we behave as though we didn’t know it - if we want change
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Business Model Assignment Part 1 Had been very busy lately finishing up on all the marking and a host of other stuff. Why is it that everything has to come together at the same time? Now I have to advise my students on completing their Business Model Assignment. My advise to them: "Do a little bit every day. Don’t wait until the week of submission and then try to cramp everything in one week. You will go haywire if you do that." There are four parts to the business model as required in the coursework
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firms. A key assumption in his model is a positive association between the rate of productivity growth and the stock of R&D workers (Izushi‚ 2008). They are research sector‚ intermediate sector and final goods sector. Research sector is like research labs or departments that produce ideas. Intermediate sector takes those ideas to make tools and machines. Final good sector uses ideas to produce consumer goods. Summary of Romer I Different from Solow model‚ Romer gives up the assumption of
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Dear Grandma‚ To me a role model is someone in my life that has influenced me in a positive way. They help shape the way I am in the present and what I will be in the future. They are someone that I can look to for advice in a hard situation and know that they will give me words of wisdom. They will never judge me on my past but only look to help because they really do care about me. Someone who I never feel awkward talking to about my problems because I know that it will not change their opinion
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REVISED M05_REND6289_10_IM_C05.QXD 5/7/08 4:42 PM Page 52 C H A P T E R Forecasting Models 5 TEACHING SUGGESTIONS Teaching Suggestion 5.1: Wide Use of Forecasting. Forecasting is one of the most important tools a student can master because every firm needs to conduct forecasts. It’s useful to motivate students with the idea that obscure sounding techniques such as exponential smoothing are actually widely used in business‚ and a good manager is expected to understand forecasting. Regression
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three reasons why this field emerged are: Shift in causes of death in 1900’s and 2000’s Shortcomings of Biomedical model Rising healthcare costs 2. How is the bio-psycho-social model different from the biomedical model? Imagine that you were experiencing headaches‚ explain how your problem might be explained and treated by someone adhering to each model? The bio-psycho-social model
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Leadership Models Leadership Models The dynamics of leadership-follower relationships has grown in the last two decades because of a growing discussion in leadership literature (Popper & Mayseless‚ 2002) as cited in Avolio. Many companies‚ which were small 20 years ago have emerged as leaders in the market‚ overtaking their once larger competitors. These firms internally have revamped the way they do business. They have focused on making changes to their managerial process‚ thereby creating
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