Silo Busting: How to Execute on the Promise of Customer Focus by Lance A. Bettencourt and Anthony W. Ulwick In 2001‚ under price pressure from the government and managed health care organizations‚ GE Medical Systems (now GE Healthcare) created a unit‚ Performance Solutions‚ to sell consulting services packaged with imaging equipment as integrated solutions. These solutions‚ priced at a premium‚ were intended to enhance productivity by‚ for instance‚ reducing patient backlogs. At the time‚ lots
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Alexandra Smit Focus on the Learner The students attending the pre-intermediate English language course at International House are mostly Italian1. The age range is quite varied (early twenties to late sixties) and they are all very highly motivated and passionate about learning the language2. Most of the students come from a strong cultural background and have a scholastic knowledge of English‚ having learnt the language at school as part of the compulsory curriculum. Those who don’t‚ have at least
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Meichenbaum’s self-instructional approach Psychologist Donald Meichenbaum pioneered the self-instructional‚ or "self-talk‚" approach to cognitive-behavioral therapy in the 1970s. This approach focuses on changing what people say to themselves‚ both internally and out loud. It is based on the belief that an individual’s actions follow directly from this self-talk. This type of therapy emphasizes teaching patients coping skills that they can use in a variety of situations to help themselves. The
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Digital Divide: Focus on the United States Student Name INF 103 Computer Literacy Ernesto Messavussu March 18‚ 2013 Digital Divide: Focus on the Unites States The digital divide is the fact that some people have easy access to computers and all the benefits that they provide‚ while many other people are cut off from them because of poverty or living in underdeveloped countries or rural areas without Internet access (Bowles‚ 2010). This paper will focus on the availability
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Assignment 1: Focus on the Learner Note: The student’s name has been changed for the purpose of this example assignment 1. Background For this assignment‚ I interviewed Suzie‚ a Japanese lady in the Upper-Intermediate English class. Suzie moved to Australia for her husband’s work and has been living here for about one year. Back in Japan‚ she worked in an office but is not currently working here. She would like to improve her English so she can make new friends here and more fully integrate into
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NUMBER : 325 Freshmen Focus Application Explaining things that people don’t understand has always been a strong point in my time within the community. In sports‚ specifically volleyball‚ I am more experienced than most of the people in my grade. When someone is having trouble with a skill like hitting or passing I gladly help them and explain things in a way that is easy to understand. Another quality that I have‚ is the ability to effectively communicate with others. Not only am I able to communicate
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Barbie A Popular Culture focus study A popular culture is a shared set of practices and benefits that have attained global acceptance‚ and which can be normally characterised by: being associated with commercial products; developing from a local to a national to a global level; allowing consumers to have widespread access to it and; is constantly changing and evolving. As a focus study‚ it is seen that Barbie inherently displays such characteristics‚ and is therefore a legitimate popular
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English Premier League Clubs and their focus on the Asian Market An Overview Club football is now truly globalised. Clubs are no more small community based which are known in that locality‚ they are now huge organisations owned by the richest businessmen’s of the world. The transfer spend of each club is increasing at a mind boggling pace. Every year clubs are breaking their transfer record fees. The increase in this expenditure has led to clubs
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Part 1: Background a) There was a reasonably wide range of ability in this intermediate level group‚ although the majority of students were able to form coherent sentences. Some students were more confident in answering questions aloud‚ while some needed to use their dictionaries regularly during lessons‚ and were less assured with speaking in front of the class. The age ranged anywhere between mid-20’s and late 50’s. The most common interests of the group were listening to music and watching
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56108 Assignment 1: Focus on the learner Background For this assignment I chose Fernando; a 25 year old Spanish male from Seville. Fernando is an upper intermediate student‚ and is currently preparing to undertake his First Certificate examination. Fernando has been living in England for 6 months‚ since he graduated from university in Spain last year. He has been learning English since he was 11‚ but has only recently become his primary academic focus. Fernando is currently
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