United Services Automobile Association (USAA) was established in 1922 by a group of 25 Army officers in San Antonio‚ Texas. The Army officers‚ who were unable to obtain insurance due to their “high risk” nature‚ started the company as a means of self-insurance for each other’s vehicles. When the officers founded USAA‚ their mission was to serve those who serve our country hence their motto “Service to the Services.” Membership with USAA is currently open to U.S. military service members: officers
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Marita Sanders Wal-Mart Economic Indicators November 14‚ 2010 According to About.com (2010)‚ economic indicators are economic statistics that indicate how well the economy is doing and how well the economy will do in the future. Economic indicators can range from unemployment to the inflation rate. Economic indicators are not the same across the board‚ and will vary from industry to industry and company to company. Although Wal-Mart is a very successful company‚ there are still many areas
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work and the history of emergency services. It is important that we know the history that lead up to our current modern state. As we learn the history of emergency sservice we continue to make vital strides forward. I have learned many important things while taking this class. One of these things includes the fact that 73% of firefighting services are volunteer based‚ and that only 27% are career based. There are about 1.1 million firefighting services in the united states. This means that nearly 803
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Strategic Plan for United States Postal Service Roberto W Zayas University of Phoenix Table of Contents Executive Summary | 2 | Company Background | 4 | Vision‚ Mission‚ and Values Statement | 5 | Environmental Analysis | 6 | Non-Economic Factors in Remote Environment | 8 | Competitive Analysis | 10 | Strategic Analysis and Choice | 12 | Plan Goals and Implementation | 14 | Critical Success Factors | 16 | Controls and Evaluations | 16 | Conclusion | 17 | References
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Amplios Academy www.amplios.net White Paper Series KPIs Galore Wilson Fyffe‚ Singapore‚ 1 April 2011 Summary Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine why and how firms find resistance to performance measurement in the presence of proliferation of the same‚ leaving very valuable management information potential unrealized. Design/methodology/approach – The paper presents a framework for organizing performance measures into a manageable hierarchy‚ suitable for computerization and
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constituent departments. Having seen success in TEQIP I‚ JCEM now evinces interest in further participating in TEQIP II to “Scale up the quality and quantity of intake into its PG and PhD programs”. JCEM (a premier Engineering Institute) employed the services of ScaleneWorks to assist them in the SWOT analysis and subsequent Institutional Development Proposal preparations. Mr. Sanjay Shelvankar‚ CEO – ScaleneWorks People Solutions LLP‚ a Bangalore
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pesticide use are long from over. Carson’s book described numerous environmental impacts of indiscriminate spraying of DDT in the United States and questioned the logic of releasing large amounts of chemicals into the environment without understanding their effects on the environment or human health. Her book facilitated the ban of the pesticide DDT in 1972 in the United States and the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency. Through her masterpiece Silent Spring‚ she accused the chemical
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LEADING INDICATORS OF THE INDIAN ECONOMY Lt Col D G Naik Grenville Savio Noronha Gnanasundaram C Kaushik K Course Project Report of HS 700 – Applied Economics Spring 2006 The economic dominance of the US is already over. What is emerging is a world economy. India is becoming a powerhouse very fast. Peter Drucker‚ Management Guru‚ In Fortune The dynamism shown by India in the last 15 years is phenomenal. Paul Wolfowitz‚ President‚ World Bank There is huge amount of optimism about
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Nursing-Sensitive Indicators Efforts to define the quality of nursing practice began with Florence Nightingale‚ as she worked to improve hospital conditions and measure patient outcomes. (The Sentinel Watch‚ 2011) Nursing-sensitive indicators are measures used to evaluate the quality of nursing care patients are receiving and to improve the quality of care given. Healthcare workers should be identifying the root causes of outcomes‚ regardless of the outcome. Tracking of these outcomes‚ recognizing
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DEVELOPMENT OF SOCIAL PERFORMANCE INDICATORS [pic][pic] COLLABORATION BETWEEN HARVARD KENNEDY BUSINESS SCHOOL AND FIRST MICROFINANCE BANK PAKISTAN PROJECT REPORT [pic] Group Members: Submitted to: Syedda Mariah Atiq Sir Naseer ul Haq Mahwish Bilal Date: Mehreen Akhter Saturday‚Dec 12‚09 Anila
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