Jonathan Martin & Thomas Finnerty 08347751 & 09533699 Summary of chapter two Project life cycle and organisation 12/09/12 4BCM1 Headings: 1. Project life cycle 2. Projects V. Operational work 3. Stakeholders 4. Organizational Influences on Project Management Project life cycle and organisation: The life cycle structure can be broken down into four headings. * Starting the project * Organizing the project * Carrying out the project work & * Closing
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Discussion Questions Chapter 2 1. Why is it important to understand the different perspectives and approaches to management theory that have evolved throughout the history of organizations? Management is constantly changing. It changes over time to meet new needs. if we know what happened in the past (WHAT WORK/ WHAT DIDN’T) WE WILL be able to understand the present and plan for the future. Some ideas from the past (stock ownership‚ open book management) are still relevant to management today
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Chapter 8 Summary In Neil Postman’s book‚ Amusing Ourselves to Death‚ he attempts to persuade Americans that television is changing every aspect of our culture and world. In chapter 8‚ Shuffle Off to Bethlehem‚ Postman uses three arguing styles very well: ethos‚ pathos‚ and logos‚ which help him push the reader‚ specifically televised religion viewers and churchgoers‚ to believe that televised religion is not a replacement for religion. Throughout the chapter‚ Postman creates the feeling of guilt
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Shapiro: Chapter 2: Capital-Budgeting Principles and Techniques QUESTIONS 1. a. What is the relationship between accounting income and economic profit? Answer: Accounting income is calculated by taking revenues and subtracting all cash and non-cash expenses (such as depreciation). Accounting income also often recognizes losses for tax purposes as well‚ even though the economic loss may have taken place at another time. Economic profit is the sum of the present values of all the cash flows
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Chapter II Demand (DD) & Supply (SS) Classification of Goods & Services • Conventional • Islamic Demand (DD) • Definition‚ Law of demand‚ Individual Demand Curve & • • • • • Market Demand Determinants of demand Changes in Quantity Demanded vs. Changes in Demand Determinants of demand from Islamic Perspective Exceptional Demand Inter Related Demand Demand (DD) Classification of Goods & Services • Conventional Perspective Free goods – types of good does not require any monetary cost eg
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Communication and Strategy Chapter 2 Communication is the transfer of meaning. I. Defining communication. A. Communication is the transfer of meaning. B. Managers must not confuse communication with simply delivering messages. II. Communication is complex and thus comprised of many elements. A. Every message comes from a sender who encodes its contents. B. The sender selects a medium through which to transmit what she knows or feels. C. The message may be impeded
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DHOMESB CHAPTER 2 Q.1 An operating system is severely damaged. All data on the partition needs to be deleted‚ and all application software must be reinstalled. Which installation method should be used to correct the problem? -clean install Q.2 Which two statements should be included in a pre-installation checklist when upgrading an operating system? (Choose two.) - Verify that the hardware resources meet or exceed the published minimum requirements. -Complete a full backup of all important
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Exam 2 Ch 6 p 26. If you invest $50‚000 to earn 8% interest‚ which of the following compounding approaches would return the lowest amount after one year? (you aren’t earning interest on interest) a. Daily. b. Monthly. c. Quarterly. d. Annually. p41. An amount is deposited for eight years at 8%. If compounding occurs quarterly‚ then the table value is found at (adjust rate and number of periods!) a. 8% for eight periods. b. 2% for eight periods. c. 8%
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Chapter 2 CASE STUDY | The Creamy Creations Takeover THE SHOPPE Creamy Creations Ice Cream Shoppe is a small and popular ice cream parlor in a midsized southern city. In 2007‚ Creamy Creations had been open for almost two years and was gathering a loyal clientele of fami-lies and students from the local community college. Creamy Creations specialized in fancy‚ individualized ice cream confections. Customers would order their base ice cream ( or frozen yogurt) plus the toppings they wanted to make
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Andrew Cortino April 9th Chapter 2 ?’s 1. Your company is discussing plans to migrate desktop and laptop users to Linux. One concern raised by the users is whether Linux supports the use of CDs and DVDs for both work files and for listening to music. Which of the following is an appropriate answer? c. Linux supports both the UDF and iso9660 file systems for CD and DVD use. 2. You receive a message that you’ve successfully backed up hda2 on your Linux system. What is hda2? b. the
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