CONSULTING PROJECT Pricing and Production Decisions at PoolVac‚ Inc. PoolVac‚ Inc. manufactures and sells a single product called the “Sting Ray‚” which is a patent-protected automatic cleaning device for swimming pools. PoolVac’s Sting Ray accounts for 65 percent of total industry sales of automatic pool cleaners. Its closest competitor‚ Howard Industries‚ sells a competing pool cleaner that has captured about 18 percent of the market. Six other very small firms share the rest of the industry’s
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Consulting approaches to process improvement Bain & Co. Kai A. Simon Viktoria Institute Author’s Note: This is a part of an early draft of my doctoral dissertation that was shortened considerably for the final version. Nevertheless‚ it might be a useful collection of insight for organizations that face a need for redesigning their business processes and wish to learn more about the basic concept and how some major consulting firms approach it methodologically. The series consists of 7 parts
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the transcript of an interview conducted by Anna Kelly with IT consultant Jeff Summers and receptionist/bookkeeper Kathy Gray of Coastline Systems Consulting. The goal of this interview was to obtain sample forms and to ask questions about them to discover data entities of the system. Exhibit 1.1 Scene: The meeting room at Coastline Systems Consulting. Anna Kelly scheduled the interview to obtain instructions and sample forms for designing the data structure for the customer response system.
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Yahoo! Inc. Overview of the company’s business model‚ value proposition and projected financial forecast. Introduction Yahoo! Inc. is a global US Internet Corporation‚ founded in California in 1994‚ which provides a range of products and content‚ including email‚ media streaming and downloads. Surviving the dot.com crash in 2001‚ Yahoo concentrated on pursuing partnerships with telecoms and internet providers to compete with AOL‚ they acquired smaller search engines
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or negatively by Proposition 47‚ the first thing that came to me was budgeting or financing of the proposition. When I searched for that the first link that I came across said that it roughly costs about $50‚000 to incarcerate somebody “California’s annual costs to incarcerate an inmate in prison”. When I heard that I was trying to think of that math equation and it came to a massive expense and finding that out it is a reasonable argument that someone could use against proposition 47. When I made
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A. Our final theme for the semester 1. We have two more additional readings II. REVIEW READINGS A. Calavita’s (1996) ‘“Balanced-Budget Conservatism’ and the Symbolism of Proposition 187” Proposition 187 influenced the rest of the nation in terms of this concept called nativism. Nativism is used to describe this defensive merit of nationalism. You can be nationalistic and love your country‚ but when you have a defensive‚ aggressive nature about the way in which you feel about that nationalism
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Proposition 19: Denied. California voters recently disapproved Proposition 19‚ also known as “Regulate‚ Control‚ and Tax Cannabis Act of 2010”‚ which would have legalized the recreational use of Marijuana‚ or Cannabis‚ to citizens of the state. November 2nd‚ 2010 not only marked the opening of the polls in California‚ but as a precedent in voting history‚ as the people voted either for or against this controversial proposition‚ though ultimately the bill was defeated. With the denial of this
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The actual purposes of Proposition 227 eventually came to light shortly after its passing‚ as illustrated above. With the excuse of teaching English to language-minority children‚ by giving them a full English education‚ a situation of great inequality was created for them. This is not really surprising if we take into account Ron Unz’s political career and the public opinion of this software entrepreneur. He was a Republican candidate for governor in 1994 and a software developer. Although he supported
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and operated (white in Ukraine)‚ I will call them Group A. Group A firms are considered to have a higher industry standards and reputation. Customer‚ if unfamiliar‚ would be educated as to value and quality of product they are receiving. I would also think that perhaps this high standards have more value and affordability in the “larger” client segment‚ where medium to smaller clients competitors circle would be different. Medium clients would probably use “white and gray” research firms (Group
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Proposition 27: Special prosecution units do not produce either higher conviction rates or lower crime rates According to the data that Walker has cited‚ special prosecution units have not produced different results from regular prosecution teams. The data that Walker cited came from a San Diego‚ CA prosecutorial office. However‚ in an article published by the National Institute of Justice in the Office of Justice Programs‚ the data leads to a different conclusion. In Cook County‚ Illinois
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