Union Pacific: A Case Study for Strategic Alternatives PART 1: INTRODUCTION Union Pacific Railroad Company (UNP) is one of the four major railroad companies that transports a variety of goods across North America and is an American staple of industriousness and endurance. Union Pacific with its workforce of 43‚000 highly trained people has been in operation since 1862‚ and its span of operation stretches from Western to Southern United States and internationally into Western
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rP os t HKU933 MARTA DOWEJKO GILBERT WONG op yo THE LAO COFFEE INDUSTRY: IMPLEMENTING VERTICAL INTEGRATION FOR A SOCIAL CAUSE AT BOLAVEN FARMS Their hope is our joy. -Bolaven Farms about its resident farmers tC Founded in early 2007 by Sam Say‚ a Lao refugee who lived in Canada and Hong Kong‚ Bolaven Farms was a coffee business with a social purpose. With an office in Hong Kong and a farming facility in Laos‚ the venture’s mission was to provide high-quality coffee to
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Review the case at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services‚ Agency for Healthcare Quality and Research‚ “Getting to the Root of The Matter” at https://psnet.ahrq.gov/webmm/case/98/getting-to-the-root-of-the-matter Prepare a 4-page paper that responds to the following: 1. Define a root cause analysis and when it is used. 2. In the case study identify the incident and explain the problem that might trigger a root cause analysis. 3. Do you agree that the problem should not be investigated
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Analysing alternative methods How would enterprise rent-a-car meet their customers’ future expectations? 1. Enterprise can use independent third party to do customer survey‚ in order to obtain accurate feedback from their customers that reflect their expectations about the future service offered by enterprise. Some of advantages and disadvantages of the first alternative method are illustrated below: Advantages Disadvantages • Knowing weaknesses would be a lot faster and easier. • Extra salary
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9. Let There Be Alternatives Always have options when going into any negotiation table. Also define the threshold of what is tolerable or what concessions you would be willing to give. Esau in this encounter with Jacob had at least ten options different from selling the birthright before him which he probably never knew or utilised. The options were as follows: i. Refuse to make the birthright a subject of negotiation or value to be exchanged for food. ii. Take a walk and refuse to negotiate
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OMEGA: An Improved Gasoline Blending System for Texaco MGMT 372 Blending gasoline is a critical refinery operation. Texaco implemented the system‚ OMEGA‚ in 1980 on personal and large computer systems. Computers were being installed at Texaco refineries in 1960’s and were mostly used for accounting purposes‚ data acquisition‚ process control‚ and refinery modeling. At this time‚ compositions of gasoline blending were being developed by trial and error‚ experience‚ and average response tables
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P1. Describe the characteristics and cause of challenging behaviour Case study 1 In case study 1 Winston is physically aggressive. However over recent months he has become very withdrawn‚ extremely grumpy and agitated. In the case study it says how Winston wife known as Ruby was assisting him to get ready for bed when he lasted out punching her in her chest. This shows he has become physically aggressive. The characteristics for his behavioural change‚ was that he shouts obscenities loudly‚ especially
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Company A. Boudoir’s‚ Inc.: This company‚ a retail clothing store with three suburban locations in Atlanta‚ Georgia‚ is incorporated‚ with each of the three Boudoir sisters owning one-third of the outstanding stock. The company is profitable‚ but rapid growth has put it under severe financial strain. The real estate is all under mortgage to an insurance company‚ the inventory is being used under a blanket chattel mortgage to secure a bank line of credit‚ and the accounts receivable are all being
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2014 Complementary‚ Alternative and Integrative medicine are viewed as alternative approaches to traditional health care treatments. Over 40 percent of Americans use medical treatments developed outside of what’s considered to be “mainstream” Western or conventional‚ medicine for specific conditions or sustainability of overall well being. Discussions among people in the medical field often times lead to these types of treatments to termed “alternative” and “complementary”‚ many times
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Background of the Study We all know that bacteria are everywhere. Bacteria are microscopic organisms whose single cells have neither a membrane-enclosed nucleus nor other membrane-enclosed organelles like mitochondria and chloroplasts. One example of bacteria is E .coli is a bacterium that is commonly found in the gut endotherms. E. coli and related bacteria constitute about 0.1% of gut flora‚ and fecal-oral transmission is the major route through which pathogenic strains of the bacterium cause disease.
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