Business Revision Topic 1 – Business Organisation and Environment * What is business activity? Inputs – Land‚ Labour‚ Capital & Enterprise Outputs – Goods or Service & Waste. Processes – Research and development‚ Production‚ Marketing‚ Finance‚ Administration‚ Human Resources. * Functions * Production – the changing of natural resources into a product or service. * Marketing – IT is to do with identifying consumer needs and pleasing them. Eg: Pricing‚ advertising
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MECHANISTIC ORGANIZATIONS Metaphors create a method of thinking‚ it compares items of deferent characteristic showing similarities but not differences‚ recently shadow chancellor George Osborne criticising Gordon Brown‚ he said ’Gordon is a man with an overdraft‚ not a plan’ (Metro‚ October 28‚ 2008). Here we can see that the word overdraft is used to describe some of the present characteristics of Gordon Brown in relation to spending. Various metaphors have been used by different writers to
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[Title] Executive Summary This report is based on the online & distance learning mediums‚ VLE’s. It’s focused on three open source and proprietary VLE software platforms: Blackboard‚ Moodle and Fronter. All three are analyzed by presenting their functions‚ advantages and disadvantages. The report concludes with a comparison of them and their position in the market share showing how these learning environments have developed over time. Contents Executive Summary 2 Introduction 4 Moodle
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Virtual Learning Environment Introduction VLE can be defined as a platform that is used for learning and interaction between students and teachers by a developed online computer-web technology. There are some factors that instigated the development of VLE and it dates back as far as the internet development itself. VLE – Past‚ Present and Future Due to the need of improvement in educational systems and research‚ online learning has developed just as the internet and the World Wide Web has developed
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of the Learning Organization (1990). He can be said to be responsible for the popularity of the concept of a ‘learning organization’ today. Peter Senge argues that not only we humans learn‚ but organizations also. However‚ learning itself may not be enough for the organization to survive in this ever-challenging era. In his book‚ The Fifth Discipline‚ Senge introduced five ‘disciplines’‚ namely systems thinking‚ personal mastery‚ mental models‚ building shared vision‚ and team learning‚ that characterizes
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Second‚ while conditions of globalization‚ national and global economic issues are swapping roles. With the development of international financial and other markets as well as production-sale structures‚ the global economic relationships more and more acquire the role of leading and governing structures. Even internal affairs of large and powerful countries‚ not to mention the remaining ones‚ are forced to adapt to the realities of the global economy. Third‚ globalization process objectively leads
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Do Myth Exist Anymore Do myth exist today? After reading the first three chapters of The Power of Myth and remembering a class that I took several years ago‚ I think they still exist or should I say that we are all part of some future mythology. It will require a careful eye or a creative ear to point them out because of the direction our society has went with the machine. My understanding is that a myth is a type of speech. Speech of this kind has a message to share but by no means is
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Chapter 2 Charting a Company’s Direction: Vision and Mission‚ Objectives‚ and Strategy CHAPTER 2 CHARTING A COMPANY’S DIRECTION: VISION AND MISSION‚ OBJECTIVES‚ AND STRATEGY CHAPTER SUMMARY Chapter 2 presents an overview of the managerial ins and outs of crafting and executing company strategies. Special attention is given to management’s direction-setting responsibilities – charting a strategic course‚ setting performance targets‚ and choosing a strategy capable of producing the desired
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Name: Jay Melson Petero Year & Sec.: BSIT-4B “Why do I exist”….”What is the purpose of my life?”….”Why does God created me?” There are probably millions of people ask these question every day. In fact‚ all of us tend to forget the answer of these question because of different problems we are facing today. We exist because we have different purpose in our life and it’s important to know the purpose why God created us. Life is very meaningful whether we want it to be or not. Even though
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in the teaching and learning process. The benefits that accrue to students in universities and other learning institutions using e-learning are well documented. Over the past years in majority of countries‚ academic institutions and other institutions of higher learning have been diversifying in delivery of instruction to learners through internet media. These internet media include Virtual Learning Environment system (VLEs)‚ online classrooms and asynchronous distance learning amongst other growing
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