The Carbonated Soft Drink (CSD) industry is a profitable one despite the “Cola Wars” between the two largest players – Coke and Pepsi. Such profitability can be understood by analyzing the CSD’s industry structure in terms of “Porter’s five forces.” Threat of New Entry The existing players in the soft drink industry have much advantage relative to new entrants. First‚ supply-side economy discourages new entrants by forcing them to enter the market in large scale. CSD’s demand side benefits
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10 Soft Systems and Hard Contradictions* Lars Mathiassen Peter A. Nielsen Abstract. Checkland ’s Soft Systems Methodology for defining and solving problems in organizations is presented on the basis of an application of the methodology. In many ways this approach represents an improvement in relation to more traditional approaches to computer-based information systems. Based on an experiment we explore the possibilities of combining the practical usefulness of soft systems thinking with the
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SOFT COMPUTING social sciences behavioral sciences the humanities economics law medicine include quantitative Human sciences methods are methods are often used separately qualitative that means numerical data precise objects conventional logic complicated mathematics computer models that means non-numerical data imprecise objects approximate reasoning interpretation manual work 2 Traditional Approaches to Computerized Modeling • Mathematical
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The secondary market‚ is also called aftermarket‚ is the financial market in which previously issued financial instruments such as stock‚ bonds‚ options‚ and futures are bought and sold.[1] Another frequent usage of "secondary market" is to refer to loans which are sold by a mortgage bank to investors such as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The term "secondary market" is also used to refer to the market for any used goods or assets‚ or an alternative use for an existing product or asset where the customer
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Communication‚ June 2008 The Importance of Soft Skills: Education beyond academic knowledge Bernd Schulz Polytechnic of Namibia Abstract This paper makes a survey of the importance of soft skills in students’ lives both at college and after college. It discusses how soft skills complement hard skills‚ which are the technical requirements of a job the student is trained to do. The paper exhorts educators to take special responsibility regarding soft skills‚ because during students’ university time
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2012 Assignment:- Values and Weaknesses of the secondary research and How primary research supplements secondary research Contents 1.0 Introduction……………..………………………………………………………… 3 1.1Research definition………………………………………………………………….4 1.2 Secondary research …………………………………………………………………4 1.3 Advantages of secondary research………………………………………………… 4 1.4. Disadvantages of secondary research……………………………………………… 4 2.0 How primary research supplements secondary research…………………………… 5 2.1 Conclusion…………………………………………………………………………
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CASE STUDIES Innocent Drinks Case Study Capitalizing on the health trend in the smoothie category Reference Code: CSCM0309 Publication Date: April 2010 DATAMONITOR VIEW CATALYST Innocent Drinks has achieved unparalleled success in the UK as the foremost player in the smoothies sector. This case study looks at the smoothies category in detail and assesses the company’s achievements as it copes with recession‚ competition and takeovers. SUMMARY • The smoothies category in the UK has been
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Data Mining Project on IMDB website ABSTRACT The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) is an online database of information related to movies‚ television shows‚ stars‚ etc. We chose to do our project from 2008 to 2011 year’s movie database. We extracted data like Movie‚ Director‚ Star‚ Image Url‚ Studio from the IMDb website. For this extraction of data we used a tool named Mozenda. After the data extraction‚ the data was analyzed. For a particular star‚ his/her movie‚ director‚ studio with whom the
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Secondary storage (optical) Table of contents Why was secondary storage needed? 1 Different types of optical discs: 1 1‚ CD (compact disc): 1 2‚ DVD (digital versatile storage) 2 3‚ Blu-Ray Disc (BD): 3 Which type of recordable disc should I choose: 3 Understanding the difference between the Live File System and Mastered disc formats: 3 Discs formatted with the Live File System option: 3 Discs formatted with the Mastered option: 4 Questions from students: 4 References: 5
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What is softskills? Soft skill is the ability required and expected from persons for finding a suitable job‚ its maintenance and promotion. Softskills is an important facet of life. It is essential in all spheres of life. Be it an interview or dealing with the project leader or working out a solution with a team or writing a report‚ getting across the point effectively is what matters. The success of an endeavour hinges on the ability to communicate effectively in today’s fast paced life‚ everyone
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