Review Questions 1.1 1. What is a ‘business’? A business is a decision-making organisation involved in the process of using inputs to produce goods and/or provide services. 2. What are the purposes of business activity? Businesses exist to satisfy the needs and wants of people‚ organisations and governments. Needs – are the basic necessities that a person MUST have in order to survive. Wants – are the desires that people have. Wants are said to be infinite since people always want more
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and DHL Keells. The facets discussed in detail will be Planning‚ Organising‚ Leading and Controlling. The key strengths and weaknesses of both organisations are identified and discussed on how it touches the internal and the external factors affecting their core business. The organisation’s Vision‚ Mission‚ Critical Successful Factors are deliberated in order to come up with specific suggestions to overcome their current business challenges. Moreover‚ the key improvements for both organisations
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Business studies. Activity 3 – TESCO Customers have a range of different expectations when they use Tesco’s. For example * good value products * rapid responses to enquiries * clear honest and detailed information * Information about suitable products * Care and attention both with the customers‚ and the products. * After sales care Good value products Good value products‚ means that the product is worth the money paid. This is the minimum expected from any business
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The reason I carried out the two activities because the opportunity was given to me to plan activities for my key children‚ who had gaps in certain areas of their development. The ideas came from the previous assessments that had been carried out‚ which I used to make the implementations for the learning intentions and outcomes. The two activities involve the children actively learning through social interactions with one another‚ because the children have been paired up with a child and a supervising
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The Tasks of Planning‚ Organising‚ Leading and Controlling in Management INTRODUCTION Management in all business and organizational activities is the act of getting people together to accomplish desired goals and objectives using available resources efficiently and effectively. Management comprises planning‚ organizing‚ staffing‚ leading or directing‚ and controlling an organization (a group of one or more people or entities) or effort for the purpose of accomplishing a goal. Resourcing encompasses
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Describe and account for the relationship between earthquakes and volcanic activity The close relationship between earthquakes and volcanic activity is evident from the maps depicting the locations which are prone to both. Volcanism is associated with two of the plate boundary types: divergent and convergent margins‚ so activity is usually found along oceanic ridges where plates are moving apart‚ near rift valleys‚ on subduction zones where the most violent activity takes place and over hot spots
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Decision Support and Business Intelligence Systems‚ 9e (Turban) Chapter 7 Text and Web Mining 1) DARPA and MITRE teamed up to develop capabilities to automatically filter text-based information sources to generate actionable information in a timely manner. ANSWER: ??? Diff: 2 Page Ref: 288 2) A vast majority of all business data are captured and stored in structured text documents. ANSWER: ??? Diff: 2 Page Ref: 289 3) Text mining is important to competitive advantage because knowledge
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NGUYEN TRAI UNIVERSITY‚ HANOI BTEC HND IN BUSINESS (MANAGEMENT) ASSIGNMENT COVER SHEET NAME OF STUDENT REGISTRATION NO. UNIT TITLE Unit 15 Managing Business Activities to achieve Results ASSIGNMENT TITLE Ritz Carlton ASSIGNMENT NO 1 of 1 NAME OF ASSESSOR MBA Le Thu Hanh SUBMISSION DEADLINE 01/04/2014 I‚ __________________________ hereby confirm that this assignment is my own work and not copied or plagiarized from any source. I have referenced the sources from which information is obtained
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by Andy Rooney‚ the speaker uses tone to allow the reader to recognize the mutual trust of humanity and the law. For example‚ when the author states‚ “It’s amazing that we ever trust each other to do the right thing‚ isn’t it?”‚ he uses an appreciative tone. This is shown through the speakers’ appreciation of knowing that humanity will automatically do what is right even when it is not convenient for humanity. Even though he didn’t want to stop at the light‚ he did‚ and he is appreciative of the fact
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P3= describe the main physical and technological resources required in the operation of a selected organisation. Know the purpose of managing physical and technological resources. Buildings and facilities. Starbucks is a coffee company which is famous in the whole world. it has lots of buildings in the whole world. the stores lay mostly in the Centrum of a city. Starbucks have many facilities available. they have standard items like desks‚ banks‚ chairs‚ rooms and pillows‚ tables etc. The Starbucks
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