HBS 9-501-050 Customer Value Measurement at Nortel Networks ’’ Optical Networks Division Nortel Networks was a global player in telephony‚ data and wireless and wireline Internet solutions. Maureen Conroy and Nathalie Sauve‚ members of the Customer Value Management (CVM) Team at Nortel Networks Optical Networks‚ must recommend one of three customer value measurement methodologies to ON President Greg Mumford. In December of 1997‚ ON took a “right-angle turn” ’’ innovative cultural‚ operational
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an investor. b. the expected return on a risky asset. c. the expected return on a collection of risky assets. d. the variance of returns for a risky asset. e. the standard deviation of returns for a collection of risky assets. PORTFOLIO WEIGHTS 2. The percentage of a portfolio’s total value invested in a particular asset is called that asset’s: a. portfolio return. b. portfolio weight. c. portfolio risk. d. rate of return. e. investment value.
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HAPTER S EVENTEEN FUZZY LOGIC Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing. Advance with it. —Giuseppe Mazzini Industrial Text & Video Company 1-800-752-8398 www.industrialtext.com SECTION 5 Advanced PLC Topics and Networks Fuzzy Logic CHAPTER 17 C HAPTER H IGHLIGHTS Fuzzy logic provides PLCs with the ability to make “reasoned” decisions about a process. In this chapter‚ we will introduce you to the basics of fuzzy logic‚ including fundamental concepts
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1. This situation has no carry bit in the output. In other words‚ the output itself is 1 bit. However‚ if we add 1+1‚ we get 10. This output is 2 bits long. This is a case where the carry-bit for the output is needed. A half adder consists of two logic gates. These are an AND gate‚ and an Exclusive OR gate. A diagram of a half adder is shown below. . Figure 1: Half Adder using XOR and AND gate. For the design of the half adder‚ do the following. 1) Create a new project in Quartus. Where it
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Midland Resources 1. How are Mortensen’s estimates of Midland’s costs of capital used? How‚ if at all‚ should these anticipated uses affect the calculations? The cost of capital is the minimum acceptable rate of return for new investments in the corporation. Estimates of Midland’s cost of capital are used in many analysis within Midland‚ including asset appraisal for both capital budgeting and financial accounting‚ performance assessments‚ M&A proposals‚ and stock repurchase decisions. These
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we must use the estimated cash flows calculated to derive a decision based on a particular capital budgeting technique. Within this report we have considered the Accounting Rate of Return‚ the Payback Period‚ the Internal Rate of Return (IRR) and the Net Present Value (NPV) techniques. The accounting rate of return is defined as the average after-tax profit divided by the average invested capital. The average invested capital for the Super Project is simply the average of the $200‚000.00 initially
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Logic Logic (from the Greek λογική‚ logike)[1] has two meanings: first‚ it describes the use of valid reasoning in some activity; second‚ it names the normative study of reasoning or a branch thereof.[2][3] In the latter sense‚ it features most prominently in the subjects of philosophy‚ mathematics‚ and computer science. Logic was studied in several ancient civilizations‚ including India‚[4] China‚[5] Persia and Greece. In the West‚ logic was established as a formal discipline by Aristotle‚ who
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Overview The reasoning in fuzzy logic is similar to human reasoning. It allows for approximate values and inferences as well as incomplete or ambiguous data (fuzzy data) as opposed to only relying on crisp data (binary yes/no choices). Fuzzy logic is able to process incomplete data and provide approximate solutions to problems other methods find difficult to solve. Terminology used in fuzzy logic not used in other methods are: very high‚ increasing‚ somewhat decreased‚ reasonable and very low
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IMSC 500 TERM PAPER FUZZY LOGIC How can a logic which is "fuzzy" be useful? As humans‚ we often rely on imprecise expressions like "usually"‚ "expensive"‚ or "far". But the comprehension of a computer is limited to a black-white‚ everything-or-nothing‚ or true-false mode of thinking. Within conventional logic‚ terms can be only "true" or "false" i.e. either 0 or 1. Fuzzy logic allows a generalization of conventional logic. It provides for terms between "true" and "false" like "almost true"
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HBS- Airborne Express Background Information Seattle based Airborne Express was the third largest express mail business in the 1990s. The product of two specialist airfreight carriers‚ Airborne Express began operations in 1968 and targeted businesses requiring regular‚ high-volume shipments of urgent items. Airborne maintained low cost operations by focusing on efficiency. We discuss how the express mail industry evolved throughout the 1990s and what Airborne did to remain competitive. How and
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