Content management system

New era of Sanoma Group As a leading European media and learning company, the Sanoma Group is facing many economic, social and technological challenges, such as financial and management problems, lack of right communication channels in the organisation, declining sales, and the switch from traditional to digital media channels. These problems lead to the initiation of a new strategy which concentrates on creating an innovation focused organisation structure and entrepreneurial environment in…

Ministry of Water Resource, Works and Housing in Ghana, after my associate degree in Public Administration, I was fortunate to be involved in project management roles at the ministry. This gave me a fascinating insight into the challenges that confront project managers – risk management, contracts, project initiation, planning, financial management, socio-cultural effects on schedule control and environmental sustainability. In my experience, in almost all cases, the success or failure of most…

The fundamental basis of Department of Defense (DoD) acquisition management is the process of effectively translating technological opportunities and the needs of the warfighter into reliable, affordable, and sustainable systems (Brown, 2010). Ultimately, there are many aspects of the acquisition process that enable this to happen, but contract planning and management is the most vital for a successful acquisition. Therefore, in the decades to come, training and developing a quality workforce…

An activity system is a structured organization that helps describe how people do work together. According to Kain and Wardle’s text in Writing About Writing, the activity system is made up of a subject, a community, rules within it, a division of labor, motives, and tools used by the subject. At the agency, the subject is the employee. The community is made up of strategists, designers, content creators, project managers, web developers, the CEO, the…

Introduction Systems thinking, as defined by today’s scholars, has been around for decades and continues to grow as researchers turn to the past, present, and future to gain a better understanding. In fact, concepts found in systems thinking go back to the time of Aristotle (Mele, Pels, & Polses, 2010; Ing, 2013). This method points out how systems have no ends, are all interconnected, and that it is impossible to completely comprehend anything (Senge, 2014). Since humans tend to want to…

the head of the research department he became interested in researching not only the different manager and supervisor styles, but the effectiveness of each of those styles. His research lead to one of his most popular developments, Likert’s Management System. Likert broke down all of his research and came to the conclusion that there are four main types of managerial styles. The first managerial style is Exploitive Authoritative. Exploitive Authoritative, the managers’ uses fear to motivate…

the design, operation and maintenance of poka-yoke devices. The framework includes a scoring system; background in both lean production and human factors is required to apply the framework. (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0278612512000313) Enabling Poka-Yoke Workflows with the AristaFlow BPM Suite This tool gives idea into the AristaFlow BPM Suite – a next generation process management technology that has originated from our research activities in the ADEPT project. We show…

A decision support system uses data from internal and/or external sources (Stair & Reynolds, 2010). Internal sources of data might include sales, inventory, or financial data. Data from external sources could include interest rates, the cost of raw material such as flours, and fuel cost. Some decision support systems also include capabilities that allow you to create a model of the factors affecting a decision (O'Brien & Marakas 2009). With the model, you can ask what-if questions by changing…

Contents Introduction 2 Question 1 3 Question 2 7 Question 3 8 Conclusion 9 References 10 Figure 1: Table presenting an analysis of the competitive intensity Syngenta faces 4 Figure 2: Graph presenting a Seven S model 7 Figure 3: Table presenting an internal analysis of the current state of Syngenta 7 Figure 4: Table presenting internal growth strategies to choose for Syngenta 8 Figure 5: Table presenting application of growth strategies 9 Introduction Strategic management (strategic…

When as a customer we think about discount retail industry; one of the most renowned names occurs i.e. Primark. Primark has developed the industry into a successful leader under intense competitive market, and they have continues to set up the bar for each and every organisation. However, over couple of years, Primark’s sales growth has faced a down turn that has led to create major issue for the organisation. From the past few years; Primark has developed into double digit sales growth rate;…