The Balanced Scorecard for Hospital Performance and Productivity ABSTRACT The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the usefulness of the Balanced Scorecard in improving a hospital’s management and delivery of health care at reduced cost without loss of quality. This paper describes an approach to designing and implementing a balanced scorecard system for measuring performance and productivity in a hospital setting. Specific measures of performance criteria are suggested as well as
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Chapter 1: Overview of Nokia Company 1.1 History of Nokia Nokia started as a wood-pulp mill in southern Finland and started to manufacture paper in 1865 by engineer Fredick Idestam. Since the demand for paper and cardboard was high and there was European industrialization‚ Nokia become successful. In 1895‚ Nokia is passed to Gustaf Fogelholm. In 1920s‚ the Rubber Works started to use Nokia as their brand name. Nokia produced footwear‚ tyres‚ rubber bands‚ industrial as well as raincoats. After
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The idea of cognitive maps has been around since Edward Tolman first developed the idea in 1948 while he was doing research on small animals‚ such as rats‚ navigating through mazes; and‚ although confusion efforts by way of obstacles‚ the rats still managed to find their way to the reward (Bridgmon‚ 2015). The theory was that this memory created a map in the rat’s mind‚ called cognitive maps; and even if distracted or interrupted by outside stimuli‚ the map would still be encoded allowing the rats
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especially in this market. Nokia has created an established brand name for them internationally and this makes it hard for new entrants to compete. 5. Big firms may retaliate and try to prevent companies from entering the market by giving out special deals or lowering price to the point where it is not viable for new entrants to compete. 6. Patents also limit innovation and this will potentially deter new entrants. 7. Due to the size of the big firms such as Nokia‚ they will have an advantage
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Map the Supply Chain Caroline Evans MKT/421 September 18‚ 2014 Dr. Michael McKinley Abstract The supply map and the supply chain management consist of manufacturers‚ distributors and retailers. The marketing mix determines the product mix and the product mix helps the fashion designer to control the target market. The distributor of the finished garment later determines how the product would distribute throughout the department and discount stores. The target market will help the designer
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Balance of Payment Balance of Payment is the recording system of economic and financial flows that take place over a specified time period between residents and non-residents of a given country. The residents of a country compromise of the general government‚ individual‚ private and non- profitable bodies serving individuals and enterprises. The Balance of Payment will consist mainly with three sections. 1. Current Account- This shows all the inflows and outflows of a country. 2. Capital Account-
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The Balance of Payments of a country always balances The BOP accounts summarize international transactions for a specific period‚ usually a year‚ and are prepared in a single currency‚ typically the domestic currency for the country concerned. Since the balance of payment is based upon system of double-entry book-keeping‚ the total debits must equal to total credits. This is because two aspects of each transaction recorded are equal in amount but appear on opposite sides
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Balanced scorecard A strategy management tool • Introduction Companies today are in the midst of a revolutionary transformation as Industrial age competition is shifting to Information age competition. The cut-throat competition that businesses faced in the last two decades has made them to look for improvement initiatives like Total Quality Management‚ Just-in-Time (JIT) systems‚ Employee empowerment and Re-engineering. Though these initiatives resulted in enhanced shareholder value‚ they
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Summary: In this paper is amid to review the performance of Nokia in Chinese mobile phone market since 2002. A literature review about marketing research models such as 4 Ps‚ Porter’s 5 Forces‚ SWOT analyses is carried out by the author. After that‚ this paper explained the changes of market environment in last decade with competitor analyses. In addition‚ the author evaluates the market mix of Nokia. Opinions of how well Nokia did in building a strong brand is presented afterwards. Following
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Hence it’s not optimum utilizing land. 4. Building constructed cost was high 3. Purpose of the Study/Objectives The ultimate goal of this research is to prepare the Land Use Map and zonal map to answer the above problem and prepare zonal map on following area. 1. Soil 2. Defense 3. Cottages 4. Sports 5. Entertainment 6. Farming & Agriculture 7. Birds watching 4. Statement of Research Hypothesis
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