Wellness tourists: in search of transformation Cornelia Voigt‚ Graham Brown and Gary Howat Cornelia Voigt is a Researcher‚ Graham Brown is a Professor of Tourism Management‚ and Gary Howat is an Associate Professor‚ all at the School of Management‚ Centre for Tourism & Leisure Management‚ University of South Australia‚ Adelaide‚ Australia. Abstract Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore and compare the benefits sought by three different types of wellness tourists: beauty spa‚ lifestyle
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been sponsoring was not going according to plan and the project manager had very few answers for her. Christopher Martin‚ a consultant from Implementation Technologies‚ was the project manager for the $2 million Ariba e-procurement implementation at MED-X Inc. This was 0DUWLQ¶VILUVWWLPHPDQDJLQJDIXOO-life-cycle e-procurement implementation and he was having problems figuring out what was delaying the
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Case Study Paper American Philosophical Association Guidelines Adriana I. Barrera Palomino Endicott College BUA 581 Managing Information Systems Case Study: Strategic IT Transformation at Accenture Professor Karaganis 12 November‚ 2013 Accenture is today one of the world’s leading organizations providing management consulting‚ technology and outsourcing services‚ with approximately 275‚000 employees. Accenture has offices and operations in more than 200 cities in
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ISSN 1940-204X Activity-Based Management in Shell Gabon* Shahid Ansari Babson College Jan Bell Babson College Background Table 1 SG’s 2000 OPEX Cost Forecast 2 During the 1990s‚ world events‚ such as Russia’s increased oil production and Asia’s economic meltdown‚ caused excess oil supply. In fact‚ by mid-2002‚ there was over 6 million barrels per day of excess production capacity. Oil prices‚ much like any other commodity prices‚ respond to supply conditions with wide price
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OPIM 5894 ADVANCED PROJECT MANAGEMENT VERTEX PHARMACEUTICALS CASE Team 2 April 5‚ 2012 http://users.business.uconn.edu/snair/opim5894.html Team 2 - Vertex Pharmaceuticals case 2 Issues Raised Drug development issues – selecting a portfolio of products In-house versus Licensing issues Types of risks – Target risk‚ Mechanism risk‚ Molecule risk‚ Market risk Real options analysis Team 2 - Vertex Pharmaceuticals case 3 Which of the 4 project portfolio options currently facing Vertex
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CEMEX In little more than a decade‚ Mexico’s largest cement manufacturer‚ Cemex‚ has transformed itself from a primarily Mexican operation into the third largest cement company in the world behind Holcim of Switzerland and Lafarge Group of France with 2004 sales of $7.1 billion and more than $2billion in cash flow. Cemex has long been a power house in Mexico and currently controls more than 60% of the market for cement in that country. Cemex’s domestic success has been based in large part on an obsession
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The Enron Case Questions: 1. Do you believe that there has been a significant shift or evolution over the past several decades in the concept of “professionalism” as it related to the public accounting profession? If so‚ explain how you believe that the concept has changed or evolved over that time frame and identify the key factors responsible for any apparent changes. a. Do you believe that there has been a significant shift or evaluation over the past several decades in the concept
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Case # 4 Chapter 2. Issue: There are two parties involved in the case dispute the one is called plaintiff‚ according to Kubasek. ‚ Browne‚ ‚ Herron‚ ‚ Giampetro-Meyer‚ ‚ Barkacs‚ ‚ Dhooge‚ ‚ & Williamson‚ (2012) the definition of plaintiff is‚ “ the person or party who initiates a lawsuit (an action) before a court by filing a complaint with the clerk of the court against the defendant(s). Also known as claimant or complainant‚” (page‚ G22). In this case Jarold Daniel Friedman is plaintiff;
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Case Study 2 Google Purpose The purpose of this assignment is to help you explore the design and conduct of human resources function and to make a recommendation to senior management to address (1) recruitment and selection‚ (2) training and development‚ and (3) performance appraisal.. Expectations You are expected to read the case from the textbook (Google on p. 645) and identify the HR issues present in the company. Next‚ you will develop a set of recommendations for Google to improve the organization
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Canadian Pharmaceutical Distribution Network Case Brief Major Issues The key issue with the current performance measurement system is its inability to accurately capture the metrics that can provide key insights. Currently‚ the KPIs used in the CPDN warehouse do not account for the root cause of poor performance or a basis for corrective action. Our past performance levels have been very good but recent complaints from customers and pharmaceutical manufacturers have subjected the system to scrutiny
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