I did a Hooverville from back in the great depression. I built my Hooverville on a big piece of cardboard. I partly spray painted the big cardboard for a mud look. My Hooverville has five shacks and a lean to. The shacks are made out of cardboard that I also spray painted to look like mud. The shacks are held together with hot glue. On the shacks I used some material to make roofs and door coverings. I made some trees and bushes on my Hooverville too‚ using Spanish moss. I got some sticks
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Describe and analyse a subculture with which you are familiar. The definition of a subculture is a culture within a culture where a group develops distinctive norms and values that are different from those of the mainstream culture. The subculture that I will be writing about is called the Fan Base which is also know as the Fandom. A fan base or fandom is a group of regular supporters and enthusiasts that spend a rather large amount of time and energy focussing on a team‚ musician or musical
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Purpose. Examples of practitioner‚ business and academic literature on the topic of organisational ‘Purpose’ show why the topic seems confusing to many business executives. If the ‘Purpose’ is to define the organisation’s reason for being‚ then which stakeholder group are we referring to? Stock exchange investors identify a different ‘Purpose’ than will customers‚ and different again to employees. Let us consider the full range of possibilities of the coffee-mug example used elsewhere
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3.1 Explain how products are developed to sustain competitive advantage 3.1.1 The product life cycle (PLC). The product life cycle is used for determining the lifespan of products and there are 4 sub stages of product: introduction‚ growth‚ maturity and decline. From 2007 until now‚ Honda Air Blade has become the most successful line of Honda’s motorbike as well as on market. Since it was born‚ Honda Air Blade has achieved sales of more than 2 million products. This year‚ from April to the end
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Johnson‚ Scholes and Whittington (2008)‚ core competencies refers to “the skills and abilities by which resources are deployed through an organisation’s activities and processes such as to achieve competitive advantage in ways that others cannot imitate or obtain”. Developed by Hamel and Prahalad in 1990‚ simply stated‚ (a) it provides customers with major benefits‚ (b) it is difficult to imitate and (c) it can be leveraged in many products and markets. Differentiated from regular competencies and capabilities
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* E6 One example of how a setting may prepare young children is by using a teddy or a role-play to act out the situations that may occur during a transition. Using a teddy may indirectly allow the child to express their concerns and fears about what their new setting may be like. Role-play is an effective tool for young children to engage in‚ so that they can act out what may happen in their new setting and how best to confront any problems that they may encounter. * Tassoni noted that ‘with
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P1 Describe the type of business‚ purpose and ownership of two contrasting businesses. In this task I will be stating the purposes of two of the contrasting businesses which are a LTD and a PLC. (New Forest Ice Cream and Thorpe Park) First of all I will look at the businesses individually and taking into account which type of business it is and its objectives. There are two main types of a limited company; A public limited company‚ (PLC) is normally a big‚ well-known business. This could be a business
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Describe how groups can influence people in positive and negative ways. We as people have many different roles within our life‚ these roles serve many different purposes. We also we find we belong to different groups in which we play our different roles‚ this makes up our social identity. It is these groups that can have a negative or a positive effect on ourselves. We can be part of the “in group” or the “out group” depending on somebody’s experience of the membership of that group‚ sometimes
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Knowledge Solutions January 2010 | 72 Marketing in the Public Sector By Olivier Serrat Marketing in the public sector may be the final frontier. Agencies operating in the public domain can use a custom blend of the four Ps—product (or service)‚ place‚ price‚ and promotion—as well as other marketing techniques to transform their communications with stakeholders‚ improve their performance‚ and demonstrate a positive return on the resources they are endowed with. The public sector is the part
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No organisation operates in a vacuum. All businesses are surrounded by laws‚ pressure groups‚ customers and competitors. These are part of the marketing environment that the organisation works within. Dealing with this environment is a major part of the marketer ’s work since marketing is an interface between the organisation and the outside world‚ meaning that the marketing policy of any firm should be viewed as operating within a rapidly changing environment. If a company is to meet it ’s goals
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