Recommendations for Silver Ships to gain a competitive advantage in the Military and Workboat Industry 1. Focus on the Gulf of Mexico a. As stated in Exhibit 4‚ Silver Ships has had quite a few buyers focused around the Gulf of Mexico. b. Alabama is in the middle of the US shoreline for the Gulf of Mexico. c. Silver Ships can use the International Workboat Show stated in Exhibit 3 to draw more customers from all around the Gulf. i. They have already have had previous
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Blue Ocean Strategy August 21‚ 2014 University of Phoenix Blue ocean strategy is a concept written to question the standard five forces concept of marketing. The idea is to move out of the quote “red ocean” where there are sharks always competing into the “blue ocean” competition of your own where other competition is nonexistent. A red ocean is easily understood since it “represents all the industries in existence today” (Kim & Mauborgne‚ 2004). Blue ocean focuses on potential
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Blue Ocean Strategy The high growth and profits an organization can generate by creating new demand in an uncontested market space‚ or a "Blue Ocean"‚ than by competing head-to-head with other suppliers for known customers in an existing industry. The only way to beat the competition is to stop trying to beat the competition. To understand what Cirque du Soleil has achieved‚ imagine a market universe composed of two sorts of oceans: red oceans and blue oceans. Red oceans represent all the industries
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Ocean acidification is the ongoing decrease in the pH of the Earth’s oceans‚ caused by carbon dioxide from the atmosphere‚ Seawater is slightly basic (meaning pH > 7)‚ and the process is a shift towards pH-neutral conditions rather than a transition to acidic conditions (pH < 7). Ocean alkalinity is not changed by the process‚ or may increase over long time periods due to carbonate dissolution. An estimated 30–40% of the carbon dioxide from human activity released into the atmosphere dissolves into
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This research project investigates how the pH of ocean water affects the mass of the shells of sea organisms. People who might benefit from this project are Oceanographers and Fisheries. The resources used included an article from the website Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History‚ called “Ocean Acidification” by Jennifer Bennett‚ an interview with Dr. Andrew Dickson‚ a professor of marine chemistry at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography‚ University of California‚ San Diego‚ and an
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Vaughn‚ par 9). For generations the ocean has been called “The largest museum on earth” (Vaughn‚ par 8). The Earth has been maintained in a natural state of balance‚ but the advancement of human civilization has thrown it off balance (Stewart‚ video). Each year as humans evolve we destroy the Earth along with its natural resources (Rekacewicz‚ par1). Almost everything depends on water and it’s cycle. However‚ the oceans
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Why is the Pacific Ocean unsafe? In 2011‚ Japan suffered a major travesty due to the 9.0 magnitude earthquake‚ and tsunami that followed soon after. However‚ during that earthquake and tsunami‚ a nuclear power plant known as Fukushima Daichii was hit‚ and exposed to the community. Being exposed to a nuclear power plant is extremely harmful because of the symptoms that may occur from it‚ due to radiation. According to the 2013 edition of the Encyclopedia‚ radiation is a‚ “flow of atomic and subatomic
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Ocean Manufacturing‚ Inc. c as e 1.1 The new client acceptance decision Mark S. Beasley · Frank A. Buckless · Steven M. Glover · Douglas F. Prawitt l ea r n ing o bje C t ive s After completing and discussing this case you should be able to [1] Understand the types of information relevant to evaluating a prospective audit client [2] List some of the steps an auditor should take in deciding whether to accept a prospective client Identify and evaluate factors important to
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Suffering Ship Part 2: Sick as Dogs‚ Trapped like Rats PHL/251 March 17‚ 2014 Professor Robert King Suffering Ship Part 2: Sick as Dogs‚ Trapped like Rats So we still have 412 passenger and crew‚ including 50 kids. The Bird Flu has hit the Shakelton’s ship along with its failing engine. It is going to take 10 man hours to fix‚ and 8 days to get to a decent port for more help and medications. Just outside of helicopter range‚ aircraft drop is just at least a day away‚ it is going to drop
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trying to answer many unclear questions about ocean garbage and just how badly it’s affecting the ocean and marine life. Rochman believes that a lot of the supposed “threats” that scientists say ocean garbage pose had not been tested at all‚ and that the scientists had an insufficient amount of information to prove that the debris is doing or going to do exactly what they claim. Rochman and her colleagues studied over a hundred papers on the subject of ocean garbage and it’s effects. Eighty-Three percent
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