EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This report has been shaped to examine the reason of a failed T-card project initiated for automating Sydney’s transportation ticketing system‚ the objective of the system was to create a smart card that can be used with the CityRail‚ Sydney Busses‚ Sydney ferries service‚ trams and it will also bring all other private transport service providers into city’s integrated ticketing system (Anonymous‚ Tcard viewed on 24 sep 09). The contract was awarded to a Perth based ERG Group
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lives and treated as equals. [They] wouldn’t tell them what to do‚ but left them to make their own decisions.”(I LET MY CHILDREN DO WHAT THEY WANT) They believe that they are permitting their children to make their own choices when it is quite the contrary because the decision has been made for them. Children have no say in how they will be educated. Although school may not be a favorite among children‚ they do not have the chance to explore what it is like even if they wanted to. It goes both ways:
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Investing in TUFS 1. What went wrong with the TUFS investment and what can be done to prevent these problems in the future? TUFS is the Technical Underwriting Financial System and was the biggest distinct outlay in IT by the Northern Insurance Company. They faced the difficulties in first few months and the team found very hard to finish it. The concerns are related with the efficacy and the upcoming prospects for the top notch evolution in underwriting process. Then it converted in to the key
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continues to be one of the biggest issues facing airlines and the severity of the problem continues to increase. Incidents of in-flight passenger misconduct represent a serious threat to passenger safety. Awareness of the causes of this passenger misconduct is required to adequately prevent‚ identify and treat in-flight cases of passenger misconduct. The main question arises: Why do people sometimes behave irrational? 1 What is an Unruly Passenger? There are various definitions which encompasses‚ on
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Graffiti is a crime. It’s wrong. It is wrong to plaster negative manifestos in the public eye‚ it is wrong to abuse our surroundings and it is wrong to deface -to destroy the environment we share. However‚ this destructive infection that I refer to as graffiti is not done in spray paint. Graffiti is not gang names on subway walls‚ nor is it murals done without permission. I am here today‚ to unveil the truth of what real graffiti is. But first‚ allow me to define art. I have come to realize that
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Case Summary Investing in TUFS The case refers to a company called Northern Insurance and their huge investment on TUFS (Technical Underwriting Financial System). That system was the largest investment ever made on IT by Northern Insurance and it was supposed to assist the company by “streamlining the underwriting process and providing strategic e-business capabilities”. Yet‚ after a couple months‚ TUFS became the cost-center of the company‚ spending almost $4 million‚ and therefore the CIO
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He looked gloomily at the offending photo which showed the project team happily "clinking" pop cans and coffee cups in a toast: "Here’s to TUFS!" The Technical Underwriting Financial System (TUFS) was the largest single investment in IT ever made by Northern Insurance‚ and it was going to transform Northern by streamlining the underwriting processes and providing strategic e-business capabilities. The TUFS team had brought the project in on time and on budget‚ so the party was a thank-you for all of
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achieving them." (McDonald 2002 p56) The complexity of marketing planning means that when organizations embark on it‚ they should expect to encounter a number of organizational‚ attitudinal‚ process and cognitive problems (McDonald 2002). This essay is an attempt to outline some of those problems‚ however it is beyond this essay to clarify all possible barriers in implementing a marketing plan. After the potential barriers are of implementation are specified the essay will try and give possible solutions
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Homeless: What Has Been Done To Decrease The Problem? One of the largest growing concerns in Toronto is the constantly increasing number of citizens who are finding themselves living on the streets. With the decrease in the number of available jobs‚ the population of homeless people has literally boomed. My questions are not as simple to answer as they may appear. Why is a large portion of our community forced to live on the streets? What has be done to decrease the problem? These are the questions
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Evaluating Adultery Bonnie Steinbock in her essay “What’s Wrong with Adultery?” starts by quoting the data from studies to show that the number of women who have committed adultery has significantly increased. Despite this increase in female adultery‚ it is in some degree due to the attitudes changing toward sex and sexuality‚ but Steinbock thinks that people should use rational justification to evaluate the disapproval of adultery. Then in the rest of the parts of Steinbock’s essay‚ she is generally
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