portfolio of different strategic business units (SBUs) or major product lines. The BCG Growth-Share Matrix is a four-cell (2 by 2) matrix used to perform business portfolio analysis as a step in the strategic planning process. . www.business-tools-templates.com 11/1/2009 © Copyright Business Tools & Templates 2005 Page |1 11/1/2009 BOSTON CONSULTING GROUP (BCG) GROWTH-SHARE MATRIX MS-Excel & MS-Word Templates User Guide 1 INTRODUCTION In the early 1970’s the Boston Consulting
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Mise-En-Scene In The Matrix Although the average viewer is rarely conscious of it‚ mise-en-scene is both a powerful and important cinematic technique in film. Mise-en-scene allows the director to guide the viewer s attention to what they should be looking at so that important details are not missed and trivial details are not focused on. Many effective elements of mise-en-scene are illustrated in the white room scene in The Matrix‚ in which directors Andy and Larry Wachowski use only minimal setting
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In this particular essay I will be analyzing the semiotic and ideological breakdown for ‘The Matrix’ and to see the various methods it has sparked ideological queries to relate the Matrix to the Bible. To understand the correlational and ideological implications between the two‚ we must understand and decipher both the matrix and the Bible. I will breakdown few particular examples to showcase the denotative and connotative relation presented between the two. The first of the few correlations to relate
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REAL OR NOT REAL? After reading Meditation 1 Of the Things Which We May Doubt‚ A synopsis of The Matrix‚ and Plato’s The Allegory of the Cave I am convinced that each one of these writings was wrote by the same person. The Matrix is completely about being in a world that is not real‚ kind of like being in a dream like state. Descartes’s meditation is about basically the same thing‚ but trying figure out what is real and what is not. Descartes’s talks about awaking from a dream and then going
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Skepticism and the Matrix March 21‚ 2012 1197 Words Reality is something that has been debated among philosophers for centuries. Rene Descartes is one of these philosophers who has come up with a unique way of understanding reality. Descartes in Meditations on First Philosophy argues his method of doubt about the idea of skepticism and this is reflected in the Matrix when Neo chooses the red pill over the blue pill and his entire experience that followed. In The Matrix‚ Neo is given
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University of Phoenix Material Insurance Matrix Directions – Matrix For each type of insurance listed in the matrix‚ identity three functions‚ three coverage characteristics‚ and three companies that offer this type of insurance. |Type of Insurance |Functions |Coverage Characteristics |Companies That Offer It | |Auto |Protects the client from finiacial
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The Shell Directional Policy Matrix is another refinement upon the Boston Matrix. Along the horizontal axis are prospects for sector profitability‚ and along the vertical axis is a company’s competitive capability. As with the GE Business Screen the location of a Strategic Business Unit (SBU) in any cell of the matrix implies different strategic decisions. However decisions often span options and in practice the zones are an irregular shape and do not tend to be accommodated by box shapes. Instead
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Using Coca Cola to Explain Ansoff’s Matrix Ansoff’s Matrix is a useful tool for examining a company’s product range. The four main options are: 1. Market penetration 2. Product development 3. Market development 4. Diversification Information about some of the products produced by Coca Cola is given below. Read this information and complete the tasks over the page: 1. Diet Coke m penetration
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The Matrix conveys beliefs that both philosophers‚ Plato and Descartes have in the idea of reality‚ through a computer generated “reality.” Plato and Descartes convey their ideas of reality in two diverse ways in their work. Descartes believes that our senses such as smelling‚ touching‚ tasting‚ hearing‚ and seeing should be questioned. Plato used Socrates and Glaucon to portray his beliefs that our reality could be explained as being simply shadows. In the film‚ The Matrix and both readings we
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Bayesian Probabilistic Matrix Factorization using Markov Chain Monte Carlo Ruslan Salakhutdinov rsalakhu@cs.toronto.edu Andriy Mnih amnih@cs.toronto.edu Department of Computer Science‚ University of Toronto‚ Toronto‚ Ontario M5S 3G4‚ Canada Abstract Low-rank matrix approximation methods provide one of the simplest and most effective approaches to collaborative filtering. Such models are usually fitted to data by finding a MAP estimate of the model parameters‚ a procedure that can be
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