Avoiding the Alignment Trap in Information Technology 1 About the Case • Article in “MIT Sloan Management Review” • Article is prepared based on survey of more than 500 senior • • business & technology executives and in-depth interview of 30 CIOs. The principle findings of the study is that even at companies that were focused on alignment‚ business performance dependent on IT sometimes went sideways‚ or even declined. Article talks about two primary factors for success in IT: • • Alignment
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Cultural influences on tourist buying behavior The aim of this article is to identify cultural differences in tourist buying behavior and decision process. OBJECTIVES After completing this article the reader should be able to: - Identify the influence of national culture on tourist personal and psychological characteristics - Understand the influence of national culture on need recognition‚ information search‚ product evaluation‚ purchase decision and post-purchase behavior - Explain the
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my years of education in the Spanish language had allowed me to effectively decipher it. To whomever finds this letter‚ I was one of the sailors aboard the Sanlúcar‚ the Spanish cargo ship that crashed near the shore of this accursed island: Ship-Trap Island. We were on a cargo run to the port of Southampton after we left Spain‚ but while crossing near this island‚ we took a turn to a channel. That channel did not exist‚ and our boat capsized and I have no memory of the events immediately after
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Successes and failures of London as a tourist destination Over the years London has become one of the top visited capitals in the world and that itself is a success. It makes about 15million per annum (Visit London‚ 2006a). London attracts visitors from every part of the word. It has managed to be able to host any kind of customer. More than 70% of customers visiting the UK use London as their gateway to other places they may want to go (Visit London‚ 2006b)‚ being very well linked with the rest
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have dropped. Yet divorce is still considered a social problem. I find it remarkable that Disney made The Parent Trap‚ a wacky family comedy scrutinizing the “children of divorce” wish for divorced parents reconciliation and a family life so fascinating. Indeed‚ divorce is one of the most stressful events that not only affect two individuals‚ but it also affects children. The Parent Trap‚ a remake of the Disney’s 1961 classic‚ describes the effects of parents’ divorce on children. Starring in the movie
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Student-centred learning (or student-centered learning; also called child-centred learning) is an approach to education focusing on the needs of the students‚ rather than those of others involved in the educational process‚ such as teachers and administrators. This approach has many implications for the design of curriculum‚ course content‚ and interactivity of courses. For instance‚ a student-centred course may address the needs of a particular student audience to learn how to solve some job-related
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Basic Survival Traps: The Drowning Snare Survival programs can be demanding as a whole lot of stuff is going to be put into consideration. No camping experiences success without supplies‚ especially food supplies. What if you run out of supplies? Though this method of survival might not appear so flashy as a shotgun or archery hunting‚ Trapping is a common thing among every one of the staples of any survivalists skill set. It presents a passive way to provide for food sustenance without having to
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“The Ugly Tourist” “The Ugly Tourist”‚ which originally appeared in Harper’s in 1988‚ became the opening chapter of “A Small Place”. The author is Jamaica Kincaid and she grew up in Antigua. Kincaid states in her essay “The Ugly Tourist” that “a tourist is an ugly human being”. These are strong words. You can sense the anger in her essay. She defines both what it is to be a tourist as well as to live in the gaze of tourists. The title introduces a key word used multiple times throughout her
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a boat when he was planning to go hunting in Rio. You can already tell that Washington sure will not be a good experience for Rainsford because they use foreshadowing in the quotation "’what island is it ’Rainsford ask. ’The old charts call it ship trap Island.’ Whitney replied ’a suggestive name‚ isn’t it? Sailors have a curious dread of the place. I don’t know why. Some superstition…’ ". Once Rainsford arrives at the island he meets a man in which whom he presumes to be a nice gentleman who has
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In Anne Tyler’s The Accidental Tourist‚ the theme of death is one of the most prevalent themes in the novel. Without death‚ the novel would not have the story that it does. Death is the first conflict that launches the tale of these two‚ now divorced‚ couple. Through the pain and sorrow‚ Macon‚ finds himself through little things such as change and travel. After the killing of their son‚ Sarah and Macon’s relationship went downhill. Macon was not very comforting of caring towards his wife‚ and she
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