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Plastic Material

Essay about Plastic Material It should have MLA Format and Works Cited page and it should be 6 or 7 pages long. The outline should be something similar to this I. Introduction II. Background of Plastic Material A. History B. Composition or how is it made C. Types D. Producers E. Innovative uses F. Every-day uses (intro to plastic bags and bottles) III. Plastic Bags and Bottles A. Background B. Consumption C. Time of decomposition It does not need to have a concluding paragraph.

The Division of Power

one page new work,due in 2 hours
Title: The Division of Power: take a moment to compare and contrast the strengths and w
Paper type Political Science
Deadline 2017-03-14 10;00
Paper format APA
Course level 3
Subject Area Political Science
# pages 1
Spacing Double Space
Cost
# sources 1
Paper Details As we have seen through our readings, governments differ on where the power of the state should be held. Unitary systems concentrate the power within the central government and little or no authority is granted to the component areas. In contrast, federal systems allow first-order civil divisions to have some autonomy, while the central government maintains authority over some areas. Take a moment to compare and contrast the strengths and weaknesses of each system.
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Discuss which generic business-level strategy is best suited to keep the company

Learning Activity #1

Using the company you selected for the Week 3 which is Southwest Airlines, it is now time to evaluate the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats you uncovered and determine what strategy is best suited based on the outcome of the IFE and EFE.
Discuss which generic business-level strategy is best suited to keep the company you selected competitive. Offer supporting rationale for your explanation and be sure to reference your statements using proper APA formatting

Learning Activity #2
For the company chosen above, select one of the strategy formulation analytic tools and complete based on the information gathered in the Week 3 Learning Activities; the tools to select from are:
Space Matrix
Boston Consulting Group (BCG) Matrix
IE Matrix
Once you have completed the tool discuss the outcome in terms of what strategic direction the selected company should take and why. As always, offer supporting rationale for your explanation and be sure to reference your statement using proper APA formatting.

environmental engineering

environmental engineering
• Essay Question: • From an Engineering andUrban Planning Standpoint, How can we reduce noise pollution?

Discuss the overview of your undergraduate education

Professional skills in information communication technology Assessment item -Participation Activities

Participation Activity –

Requirements: Using the guidelines in ‘How to email your lecturer’ in the Week 2 reading on the Moodle website, write and send an email to your local lecturer from your CQU student email account. The body of the email should have two parts: a Personal Biography; and how you plan to use the knowledge and skills from this Unit in your future career. The email should be written in first person as you are writing about yourself. The message should include conventional elements such as a greeting at the beginning, a salutation at the end and an email signature containing your full name, student number, courseof study and your campus/workshop details. Note that a copy of the email MUST be uploaded into Moodle for marking purposes.

Part A – Personal Biography

You need to include in the email a well-structured “Personal Biography” (approximately 200words). The biography should contain an overview of your undergraduate education, work experience, and important achievements/milestones from your life that are not covered in the education or work aspects.

You may have gone straight from school to undergraduate study and then onto postgraduate study at university and have no work experience (including any past/present part time or volunteer jobs).  If that is your situation then you should explain why you have no work experience and briefly describe your plans for work in future. Similarly, this applies for the absence of achievements/milestones. Write about your future plans.

Part B -Future Career Goals relating to COIT20249, and any questions or suggestions

The email should describe how you expect to use the skills and knowledge from COIT20249 to achieve your future career goals. You should link your plans with the relevant weekly topics from the Unit Moodle website/Unit Profile to identify your expectations. Another paragraph should include any questions and/or suggestions you may have about this Unit.

Part B should be about 200 words.

Attachment:- Assignment Files.rar

Evaluation of corporate performance of google inc

Evaluation of Corporate Performance of Google Inc

The Final Paper will involve applying the concepts learned in class to an analysis of a company using data from its annual report.

Using the concepts from this course, you will analyze the strengths and weaknesses of the company and write a report recommending whether or not to purchase the company stock.

The completed report should include:

An introduction to the company, including background information.

A financial statement review.

Pro Forma financial statements (Balance Sheet and Income Statement) for the next two fiscal years, assuming a 10% growth rate in sales and Cost of Goods Sold (COGS) for each of the next two years.

A ratio analysis for the last fiscal year using at least two ratios from each of the following categories:

Liquidity

Financial leverage

Asset management

Profitability

Market value

Calculate Return on Equity (ROE) using the DuPont system.

Assess management performance by calculating Economic Value Added (EVA).

Evaluate the soundness of the company’s financial policies (e.g. capital structure, debt, leverage, dividend policy, etc.) based on the material covered during class.

A synopsis of your findings, including your recommendations and rationale for whether or not to purchase stock from this company.

This report should be 15 to 20 pages long, excluding title page and reference page(s), using APA 6th edition formatting guidelines.

Support your findings and recommendations with evidence from at least five scholarly sources in addition to the annual report, such as the textbook, industry reports, and articles from the University Library. Be sure to include links to websites that were used as references or to access company information.

How the communication plan was developed

– Case Background          

Willow brook School is a small, private school in the Midwest United States. As an independent systems analyst, you work as an IT consultant, specializing in developing IT solutions for small businesses. You have been contacted by the director, Victoria Owens, to discuss the possibility of setting up an information system to handle some of the school’s administrative and financial tasks. You agree to meet with Victoria and the principal, Kathy Gilliard next week to discuss the school’s need for an information system.

Victoria explains her role as the executive director of the school. She administers the activities of the school in accordance with the mission, vision, and policies established by the Board of Directors. She supports the educational staff and oversees the financial, payroll, and human resources functions for the school. Susan Brown is the vice principal. She is responsible for the after-care program. Michelle Madrid is the administrative assistant reporting to Victoria. There are six part-time after-care teachers, three for the pre-school/kindergarten group, and three for the primary grades. After-care teachers report to Susan Brown. The following activities are undertaken by the school, Admission, Enrolment, Attendance management, Accounts, Transport Management and the Library Database. The school also supports the local charity by selling artefacts and toys made by the students and maintains an online website where people can buy and look at the new toys and crafts made by the students, which is user friendly and has images of the artefacts, toys and crafts. Willowbrook school being a small private school is looking to expand and develop into one of the niche school with a unique selling proposition of having few number of students per class. Use of technology and providing IPADS to students and eliminate the need of notebooks. Michelle, the administrative assistant, in particular is feeling the strain of the increased workload associated with the rapid growth in the student population. The system that she has been using, of spreadsheets and word processing documents, worked well when enrolments were smaller, but now the amount of time spent copying information from one place to another is daunting, and the possibility of errors is increasing. An information system is necessary to cope with the growing administrative workload.

Based on your initial conversation and the work that you prepared, you begin planning to conduct a preliminary investigation. You call Victoria and discuss with her the strategic plan for the school including its mission and vision. You explain to her that planning IT systems and projects requires a similar approach to strategic planning as the school likely took when it initially created its mission, vision, and strategic plan. She begins to ask you questions about the next steps for developing the information system. After discussions it is decided that school would invest $80000.00 and 3 months for developing this system. You have also decided to consider taking inputs on this projects from PWC and Co. PWC and Co have been in the field of administration system for years and have expertise in doing administrative activities for schools and colleges.

Task 1: SWOT ANALSIS

Conduct SWOT analysis giving 5 points each for S, W, O, T as per descriptions below to help project managers.

Task 2: Prepare Project Charter as per below template

Template for Project Charter

Basic details Including: Title of the project, Name and email of the Project Manager(yourself), Duration of the project, and High level budget

Project Objectives

• Clear, concise reasoning for why the project is being performed
• Clear, concise definition of what the project’s activities will entail
• Brief description of primary deliverable(s)
• Clear description of the project’s behefits to the organisation
• Recognition and description of any limits that the project will not cover and address

Acceptance Criteria

• Identification of specific factors against which the project can be compared to determine success/failure
• Identification of specific deliverables not only for class, but for the project as a whole
• Agency-specific deliverables
• Inclusion of due dates for the deliverables
• Clear identification of milestone and milestone exit points
• Factors should include a specific metrical comparison

Assumptions and Constraints

• Any assumptions made during the course of the project
• List of constraints that entail the limitations that are required to be addressed

Stakeholder List

• Complete list of stakeholders including the sponsor, PM, executive members and few important members that are required to contribute to high level decisions

Lessons Learned

• Identification of pitfalls to be avoided, based on the student’s past experience
• Evidence of thought as to what can and cannot affect the project in terms of how the project will run

Charter Sign off

• make sure all the stakeholders have signed off the project charter document making comments on this project.

Task 3: Prepare Communications Plan

Communication Plan Template

Plan purpose – A brief description of why and how the communication plan was developed, and an overview of the overall team communication philosophy. Also states types of communications planned, for lateral, downward, and upward communication.

Identification of stakeholders – The “who” in the project that requires information, (i.e. team members, project sponsor, class professor, etc.) and also the responsible parties to receive and/or communicate information.

Information to be shared – The “what” in terms of project information communication. Describes types of information that the team uses to communicate amongst its own team members, and also to the agency sponsor and the class professor.

Frequency of information exchange – The “when” describes how often communications will be held (i.e. daily, weekly, monthly, as needed, etc.)

Location of information exchange – The “where” states the location of the meeting or other interactions?

Purpose of communication – The “why” description assures that communications are held effectively.

Mechanism for communication – The “how” describes the media for communication (i.e. physical meeting, email, phone, message group, etc.)

Change management – Description on how the team will handle changes in the project, whether it is in terms of project scope, schedule, or resources. This includes how the team plans to communicate changes as well as how the team plans to make decisions about changes.

Meeting agenda – Gives a brief overview of what the team plans to accomplish in each of its meetings, how it documents goals and objectives for meetings, and defines and assigns actions for the team to accomplish project objectives.

II – Task

This assignment follows from the case study used in Assessment. For the same case study, complete the following tasks by creating the following:

1. Scope management plan( including Requirements, In scope-out scope items, Deliverables and scope verification process) to direct your efforts.

2. Change request form. (Determine what level of changes you as an individual can make without further approval, what changes you as a student team can make, and what changes your sponsor needs to approve.)

3. WBS first using either the free-form or the org chart format.

4. Gantt chart-Take the WBS you have already developed. Define all of the activities that will be necessary to create each deliverable in your WBS. Create a schedule for your project. First create the schedule by hand using Post-it® Notes, and then put the information into MS Project. Take screenshots of the schedule to be pasted ni your word document that you are submitting. Be sure to include all of the summary rows (including the first row for the project title) and any key milestones. Make sure the critical path is easy to see.

5. RACI chart.

6. Histogram of demands on each key participant’s time from MS Project.

7. Create a time-phased budget for your example project using bottom-up estimating. To the extent your sponsor will supply rates for workers, use those. Approximate rates for ones you cannot get. Ask your sponsor how they treat indirect costs. Be sure to include direct labour costs for you and your team mates and add 20% for fringe. State all assumptions and constraints you have used when creating your budget. State how confident you are in your estimates and what would make you more confident. Give examples of known knowns and known unknowns on your project. Tell how you have budgeted for both of them plus how you have budgeted for unknown unknowns.

8. Create a risk register (4 risks- 3 negative and 1 positive risk) for your example project.

2000 words.

7 apa reference.

The evolution of easy jet online revenue contribution

Easy Jet Case Study
The evolution of easy Jet’s online revenue contribution
EasyJet was founded by Stelios Haji-Ioannou, the son of a Greek shipping tycoon who reputedly used to ‘hate the Internet’. In the mid 1990s Haji-Ioannou reportedly denounced the Internet as something ‘for nerds’, and swore that it wouldn’t do anything for his business. This is no longer the case since by August 1999, the site accounted for 38 per cent of ticket sales or over 135,000 seats.
This was past the company’s original Internet contribution target at launch of 30 per cent of sales by 2000. In the period from launch, the site had taken more than 800,000 bookings since it was set up in April 1998 after a shaky start of two sales in the first week and one thousand within the first month. In March 2000 EasyJet increased its online discount to £2.50 for a single trip – a higher level of permanent discount than any other airline. By September 2000, Internet sales reached 85% of total sales. Since this time, the growth in proportion of online sales has decreased. By 2003, over 90% of all sales were online.
The articles relate the tale of the owner’s office being graced by a photo of the owner with horns on his head and a Mexican moustache on his upper lip. The image was contributed as a complaint by an aggrieved customer. The nature of the entrepreneur was indicated since he sent the customer two free tickets.
The company was originally set up in 1994. As a low-cost airline, looking to undercut traditional carriers such as British Airways, it needed to create a lean operation. To achieve this, Haji-Ioannou decided on a single sales channel in order to survive. He chose the phone. At the time this was groundbreaking, but the owner was encouraged by companies such as Direct Line insurance, and the savings, which direct selling, would bring.
Although Haji-Ioannou thought at the time that there was no time to worry about the Internet and that one risk was enough, he was adaptable enough to change. When a basic trial site was launched, he kept a close eye on how popular the dedicated information and booking phone line was (having a web-specific phone number advertised on the site can be used to trace the volume of users on the site). A steady rise in the number of calls occurred every week. This early success coincided with the company running out of space at its call centre due to easy jet’s growth. Haji-Ioannou related, ‘We either had to start selling over the Internet or build a new call centre. So our transactional site became a £10 million decision.’
Although the success of EasyJet could be put down solely to the founder’s adaptability and vision, the company was helped by the market it operated in and it’s chosen business model – it was already a 100 per cent direct phone sales operation. This meant it was relatively easy to integrate the web into the central booking system. There were also no potential channel conflicts with intermediaries such as travel agents. The web also fitted in with the low-cost EasyJet proposition of no tickets, no travel agents, no network tie-ups and no in-flight meals. Customers are given a PIN number for each order on the web site, which they give when they get to the airport. Page 3
Sales over the Internet began in April 1998, and although easy jet’s new-media operations were then handled by Tableau, a few months ago easy jet took them in-house.
The Internet is important to EasyJet since it helps it to reduce running costs, important for a company where each passenger generates a profit of only £1.50. Savings to EasyJet made through customers booking online enable it to offer at least £1 off to passengers who book online – this is part of the online proposition. Online buyers also benefit from paying the price of a local call, instead of the standard national rate of easy jet’s booking line. The owner says that ‘the savings on the Internet might seem small compared to not serving a meal on a plane, which saves between £5 and £10, but when you think how much it would cost to build a new call centre, pay every easy jet reservation agent 80 pence for each seat sold – not to mention all the middlemen – you’re talking much more than the £1 off we give online buyers’. What about the risks of alienating customers who don’t want to book online? This doesn’t worry the owner. He says ‘I’m sure there are people who live in the middle of nowhere who say they can’t use the Internet and will fly Ryanair instead. But I’m more worried about keeping my cost base down, and finding enough people to fill my aeroplanes. I only need six million people a year, not all 56 million.’
Promotion
The Internet marketing gurus say ‘put the company URL everywhere’. EasyJet has taken this literally with its web address alongside its Boeing 737s.
EasyJet frequently varies the mix by running Internet-only promotions in newspapers. easy jet ran its first Internet-only promotion in a newspaper in The Times in February 1999, with impressive results. Some 50,000 seats were offered to readers and 20,000 of them were sold on the first day, rising to 40,000 within three days. And, according to the marketing director, Tony Anderson, most of these were seats that otherwise would have been flying along at 600 mph – empty. The scalability of the Internet helped deal with demand since everyone was directed to the web site rather than the company needing to employ an extra 250 telephone operators. However, risk management did occur with a micro site built for Times readers (www.times.easyjet.com) to avoid putting a strain on easy jet’s main site.
Anderson says, ‘The airline promotions are basically designed to get rid of empty seats’. He adds, ‘If we have a flight going to Nice that’s leaving in 20 minutes’ time, it costs us very little to put some extra people on board, and we can get, say, £15 a head for it’. Flight promotions are intended to avoid attracting people who’d fly with EasyJet, so advanced booking schemes are intended to achieve that.
A later five-week promotion within The Times and The Sunday Times newspapers offered cheap flights to a choice of all EasyJet destinations when 18 tokens were collected. In total, 100,000 seats were sold during the promotion, which was worth more than £2m to the airline. Thirty per cent of the seats were sold online, with the rest of the transactions being completed by phone; 13,000 orders were taken over the Internet in the first day alone with over 15,000 people on the site at one point.
The web site also acts as a PR tool. Haji-Ioannou uses its immediacy to keep newspapers informed about new promotions and offers by phoning and e-mailing journalists and referring them to the web site rather than faxing.
The web site is also used as an aggressive tool in what is a very competitive marketplace. Haji-Ioannou says ‘Once we had all these people coming to our site, I asked myself: “Why pay a PR company to publicize what we think when we have a captive audience on the site?'” For example, easy jet ran a competition in which people had to guess what BA’s losses would be on ‘Go’, its budget rival to EasyJet (the figure turned out to be £20m). Within minutes of the BA results being announced on 7 September, the EasyJet site had the 50 flight-ticket winners from an incredible 65,000 people who had entered. In a Page 4

similar vein a section of the site was entitled ‘Battle with Swissair’, giving easy jet’s view that Swissair’s head had persuaded the Swiss government to stop EasyJet being granted a commercial scheduled licence on the Geneva-Barcelona route. EasyJet also called itself ‘The web’s favorite airline’, in 1999, a direct counterpoint to British Airways slogan of ‘The world’s favorite airline’ for which it enjoyed a court battle.
easy Everything
Following the brand extension success of Virgin, EasyJet has used the ‘easy’ prefix to offer additional services as part of the easy Group:
• easy Everything, a chain of 400-seat capacity Internet cafes originally offering access at £1 an hour. This is run as an independent company and will charge EasyJet for banner ads, but clearly the synergy will help with click through between two to three per cent. The only concession easy Everything makes towards EasyJet is that cafe customers can spend time on the easyjet site for free.
• easyRentacar, a low-cost car rental business offering car rental at £9 a day. These costs are possible through offering a single car type and being an Internet-only business.
Implementation
The articles report that Russell Sheffield, head of new-media agency Tableau, who initially worked with EasyJet had an initial problem of color! ‘He says there was a battle to stop him putting his favorite color all over the site.’ The site was intended to be highly functional, simply designed and without any excess baggage. He says ‘the home page (orange) only had four options – buy online, news, info, and a topic of the moment such as BA “go” losses – and the site’s booking system is simpler to use than some of its competitors’. He adds: ‘great effort was put into making the navigation intuitive – for example, users can move directly from the timetables to the booking area, without having to go via the home page’.
The site was designed to be well integrated into easy jet’s existing business processes and systems. For example, press releases are fed through an electronic feed into the site, and new destinations appear automatically once they are fed into the company’s information system.
Measurement of the effectiveness of the site occurred through the dedicated phone number on the site, which showed exactly how many calls the site generated, and the six-month target within six weeks. Web site log file analysis showed that people were spending an average of eight minutes a time on the site, and better still, almost everyone who called bought a ticket, whereas with the normal phone line, only about one in six callers buys. Instead of having to answer questions, phone operators were doing nothing but sell tickets.
Once the web site generated two-fifths of EasyJet business, it was taken in-house and Tableau now acts solely as a strategic advisor.

Reference: E-Business and E-Commerce Management by Dave Chaffey. 3rd Ed. Page 5
Your task
You are invited, as an experienced consultant, to put together a strategic plan (the final report), on the basis of the evidence supplied in the case study. The plan should include the following deliverables (These should conform to sections of your report):
You are required to produce a report entitled, “eMarketing consultation document for Easy Jet”. Further guidance on the expected content and structure is provided below.
eMarketing Review Document (words – between 4000-5000 words)
Management Summary
Briefly summaries the approach taken in the report, and the key findings
Introduction
Background – briefly describe the background context of the organization. This can include, for example, historic information on the company’s formation, the financial performance, and the key products and services.
Situation Analysis
Present Position and Industry Analysis: You should consider analyzing the organization’s current position using both of the following tools: SWOT and PEST
eMarketing Strategy
eMarketing strategy
What eMarketing strategy has the organization adopted or is planning to adopt?
What is the value proposition and differential advantage of this strategy?
Implementation
How is the management creating new core and extended value for customers?
How is the management balancing their online and offline promotion methods?
What impact is the implementation of strategy having upon the performance of the business?
Legal and ethical issues
What legal and ethical issues does the organization need to consider with regard to the gathering, processing, distribution and use of information on the Internet?
Conclusion
Appropriately concluded.
References
Harvard style of referencing

Discuss the ethical issues or challenges

Characteristics of Leader Effectiveness

The purpose of this assignment is to examine similarities and differences in characteristics of effectiveness for several familiar leadership roles. In a three- to four-page paper (excluding the title and reference pages)

• Identify the characteristics by which the effectiveness of the following leaders might be evaluated: an assistant coach, a teacher, and a minister. Prioritize and explain the rationale for these characteristics.

• Discuss the ethical issues or challenges associated with prioritization.

• Compare and contrast the extent to which there are unique or similar characteristics across the different roles, and the extent to which the criteria are measurable. For example, some of the characteristics you might identify for the role of assistant coach might include the leadership behind a team’s win-loss record, player perceptions, team morale, etc.

Design a digital dashboard for a customer tracking

Dashboard Design Digital dashboards offer an effective and efficient way to view enterprisewide information at near real time.

According to Nucleus Research, there is a direct correlation between use of digital dashboards and a company’s return on investment (ROI); hence, all executives should be using or pushing the development of digital dashboards to monitor and analyze organizational operations.

Design a digital dashboard for a customer tracking and enterprise operations system. Be sure to address at least four of the following indicators by showing how you would measure it, such as red, yellow, green status; percentage complete status; and so on.

Customer Tracking System	Enterprise Operations
Customers	Accounting
Marketing	Finance
Order Entry	Logistics
Collections	Production
Sales	Distribution
Customer Service	Manufacturing
Billing	Human resources
Credit limits	Sales
Transportation	Total Profit