Using value-chain analysis to discover customers’ strategic needs David W. Crain and Stan Abraham David Crain‚ a marketing and strategy consultant‚ is visiting professor of marketing at Whittier College‚ CA‚ and former Director of Marketing at Fluor Corporation (davidwcrain@aol.com). Stan Abraham is professor of strategy and entrepreneurship at Cal Poly Pomona (scabraham@ csupomona.edu) and author of Strategic Planning: A Practical Guide for Competitive Success (Thomson South-Western‚ 2006).
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To what extent do you agree that using mobile smart phone is beneficial to tertiary students’ studies? In recent years‚ the functions of mobile phones have been developed. Today mobile phones not only allow voice communication and test messaging (SMS)‚ but also possess certain ‘smart’ functions such as recording voice and video‚ surfing the web‚ playing music and taking photograph. These devices have made the world a smaller place and people can stay connected around the world. However‚ regarding
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Ways people cope with bad news [Name of the writer] [Name of the institution] Ways people cope with bad news Introduction After listening to a bad news people react in various different ways and it also depends on the nature of news. Sometimes we watch on TV a large number of people dying in a natural disaster; with the sight of this news‚ we feel our heart crying. This sort of thing is unbearable to watch. Sometimes we face any accidental death in family or relatives. This sort of news seems
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Home What About Abortion Other Essays History of Abortion Songs Contact Essays and Speeches We need truth in order to live. Although sufficiently available to us‚ truth has become elusive for many people. So how is it that we need truth but not seem to find it? The answer lies in our rejection of the underlying order of the universe‚ which we speak of as law. For us to recognize law is to recognize truth. It is law that causes the earth to revolve around the sun and men to bleed
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18 March 2013 What Can You See? For many‚ you have to see something to believe it. However‚ when looking at the beliefs of a blind person‚ we discover that seeing may actually distort our beliefs. In Raymond Carver’s short story “Cathedral”‚ an unnamed narrator tells a story of meeting a blind man for the first time in his life. Before meeting Robert‚ the narrator tells us of how uncomfortable he is about him. If it had not been for his obligation to meet this man‚ he probably would have chosen to
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Commerce has been part of our nation since we founded it. To every farmer‚ commerce was important so that the food they grew would not spoil on waiting for transport. However‚ as the nation grew‚ our definition of commerce has changed many times. Debates over whether Congress had powers to control commerce sparked further debate on if the Courts had the right to define commerce. Every debated‚ including this one‚ has two sides that need to be explored. I believe that the Court has a major
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phones‚ video games softwares‚ electronic media‚ the music industry and more. Hence‚ the mass media is mostly controlled by them. When we argue that the mass media encourage people to think about themselves all the time‚ what does it actually mean? From an ordinary individual’s point of view‚ the mass media would typically revolve around the Internet and affect him directly‚ that is‚ all he is exposed to influences the way he will think. We need a media to develop thoughts and ideas. Such is the
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we’re not sure what to think. One might imagine going to a building where we can donate money in‚ or visiting a website where you enter an amount of money and your credit card number. Charities haven’t made themselves highly accessible yet. My charity aims to fix that. With nothing but the clothes on my back and 10 million dollars‚ I will start the non-profit Charity organization called Charity-ception. Charity-ception is a charity that will help charities-- of any size become more accessible to the
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media about the dangers of social networking. This includes harassment‚ bullying‚ inappropriate photos being share and can lead to people committing suicide. Six out of ten people have admitted that they have had abuse/nasty comments about them on Facebook. Personally I think that they should be banned because of the dangers. Also if it is banned then it will reduce grooming over the internet and will be a lot safer for children to browse over the web. On the internet nobody knows who you are‚ where
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In my opinion what makes you‚ you is your soul‚ and I think your soul is inside of you‚ more specifically in your DNA‚ in each and every cell of your body. Of course‚ the way we look has nothing to do with our true self. A lot of people think that if we change our look or brain then it won’t be us anymore. Me in the other hand‚ I don’t think that way. I think that we only have a brain because we live on a materialistic world and our bodies are material and that is why we have a hard time understanding
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