Case Summary: Carol Burgess is a U.S. Postal Service letter carrier and a part-time trainee for a major west coast city. Her service area makes up a large portion of the state and she has trained approximately 318 new letter carriers in the past five years. The training program Burgess follows goes on for three days (one day for orientation and two days for skill training). Skills training ranges includes things like sorting the mail‚ reading the maps‚ planning the route‚ and many other necessary
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How to Solve a Case Study A case study is a collection of facts and data based on a real or hypothetical business situation. The goal of a case study is to enhance your ability to solve business problems‚ using a logical framework. The issues in a case are generally not unique to a specific person‚ firm‚ or industry‚ and they often deal with more than one retail strategy element. Sometimes‚ the material presented in a case may be in conflict. For example‚ two managers may disagree about a strategy
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Writing a case study report Josephine Hook‚ Research & Learning Coordinator Josephine.Hook@monash.edu (Source: www.office.microsoft.com) Outline What is a case study? Approaching a case study assignment The structure of a case study report Key elements of a case study report What is a case? A case might be: A real / realistic situation A specific business problem A case is a scenario that gives you the opportunity to identify problems and recommend a course of action in a business
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Case Study: Case of the Pricing Predicament This case study represents loyalty and integrity issue beyond fixed or variable prices. Scott‚ the salesman at Standard Machines has made a bid based upon the fix price established by his company at $429K. In this case‚ the company of Occidental Aerospace is taking bid from companies to earn the rights to their contract. Since Standard Machines was a loyal long time standing customer‚ Joan from Occidental Aerospace noticed that Scott’s bid was
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In this case study I am going to discuss a call which I attended whilst on my undergraduate internship. The call was for a nine month old baby boy who was suffering from pyrexia and had a history of febrile convulsions (1). Mum called an ambulance as she could not get his temperature down‚ she was giving him oral paracetamol but he had vomited after each dose that he had been given so he was not getting the required amount into his system and she was afraid that he would have another febrile convulsion
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CASE STUDY ANALYSIS OF CORPORATE DECISIONMAKING FOR CELL PHONE DEPLOYMENT Roberts‚ G. Keith1 keith_roberts@redlands.edu Pick‚ James B. james_pick@redlands.edu ABSTRACT The wireless cell phone market has experienced phenomenal growth over the last decade. This paper studies the factors that five companies considered important in deciding to deploy wireless cell phone devices‚ the extent of current use of wireless cell phones‚ the extent of existing utilization and/or planning for web-enabled cell
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Case Study � PAGE * MERGEFORMAT �1� Malfunction Junction Case Study Dale A. Miller University of Phoenix CJA/473 October 02‚ 2010 Gary Vernon Introduction A case study is a form of qualitative explanatory research that is used to look at individuals‚ a small group of participants‚ or a group as a whole. Research on case studies allows people to understand complex issues that can extend experience and add strength to previous research. Case studies articulate detailed analysis of a minimal
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Problem Statement As the head of Information Technology at Acme‚ Inc.‚ you are tasked with building a new payroll system to replace the existing system which is hopelessly out of date. Acme needs a new system to allow employees to record time card information electronically and automatically generate paychecks based on the number of hours worked and total amount of sales (for commissioned employees). The new system will be state of the art and will have a Windows-based desktop interface to allow
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Case Study PAN EUROPA FOODS S.A C. Opitz and R.F. Bruner By Your Name Table of Contents 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Executive Summary: The report is to provide the shareholders with the firm’s capital budget for the new year‚ 1993. 11 projects will be examined and discussed. Projects will be chosen based on the most needed and urgent projects and based on
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Summary: The case deals with the summary of a less expensive customer of Devox Sports Shoes and Sportswear. The point around which the case rotates is a perception of a shoe being defective or second piece where as the company or the shop owner claims that they don’t sell any second piece. The design that the customer choose at the time of purchase was a unique design according to the shop owners but after purchasing the shoe the customer feel that he has been cheated with a second piece and the
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