Starship Enterprise

1: (a) Type of social intervention: The Salaam Wanita project employs the Work Integration Social Enterprise (WISE) model, making use of a product as the choice social intervention. Salaam Wanita provides employment for the disadvantaged women by training them to weave baskets, and then paying them at least half of the revenue from the selling of the baskets. (b) Value Propositions: Firstly, for the social value proposition, Salaam Wanita 's beneficiaries, who are the disadvantaged women, can…

Mutual Aid organizations provide services that will increase the well-being of citizens, similar to a social enterprise organization such as the YMCA, members pay for the service, through paying an agreed upon amount each pay period. “Civil society organizations can be divided into nonprofit mutual associations that serve a membership and organizations that serve the public. Within nonprofit mutual associations, two broad groupings can be created: those that help the economy and those that are…

Ferguson Enterprises Incorporated is a publicly traded company, which means that ownership is dispersed among the general public in many shares of stock. The ticker symbol is WOS because Wolseley, a Switzerland-based industrial distributor, acquired the company in 1982 but retained the name Ferguson. Since then, Ferguson Enterprises has grown from a local distributor to an $11 billion company. A wide assortment of marketing techniques helped in the substantial growth. Ferguson Enterprises…

After years of steering clear of sexually explicit material in favor of the frisky but softer content favored by Hugh Hefner, Playboy has embraced hardcore pay-per-view programming and has launched the hard porn channels, Spice and Vivid. In the beginning the shift proved beneficial to Playboy as in 2001 the TV production had higher margins (26%) than the magazine ones (2%) and the television business made up 45% of the revenues (Business Week, 2002). Thus, Playboy decided to expand even further…

2, the driving force of social enterprise development in China under the social, economic, policy background, social enterprises can rise and develop how to explain the different countries of social enterprise development in China 's existing legal framework of the two main forms of non-profit organization and private non-enterprise units. They are also the ideal form of organization of social enterprises in the registration and day-to-day management by the strict regulation of government…

social value instead of personal and shareholder wealth (Zadek & Thake, 1997). The main driver of social entrepreneurship remains the social issue that it tries to impact in a positive way, and the specific organizational structure that the social enterprise adopts, based on the necessity of mobilizing resources in the most effective way. Given this reality, social ventures can be found in the form of non-profit, business or even governmental sectors. Thus, the definition that will be used in…

economy of little scale, concentrating on agile processes. o Centralize interoperability and decentralize implementation, concentrating on decreased many-sided quality through partitioning, and quicker iteration through agility. Ways to deal with enterprise architecture in view of partitioned iteration have various preferences over those in light of recursion. These include: a. Better utilization of technology to take care of pressing business issues. b. Dramatic decreases in the cost of…

The Story of the big E The big E or the USS Enterprise was the first ever aircraft carrier powered by nuclear power. It took ambition by the United States to create something of this scale. The Big E has an extensive history from the problems of the enterprise to the triumphs. The scale off the Big E is so massive compared to any other aircraft carrier before it in part of the nuclear power. Most importantly the creation of the Big E secured the future for carriers of all kinds. The Big E is…

travel and exploration, advancement of technology, and militarization. In the episode “The Ultimate Computer,” the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise faces the potential eradication of their occupations by a machine who can do what appears to be anything a human can do, faster and more efficiently. In a test run of the M-5, a computer capable of completely commanding a starship meant to be…

A poster from the early 1950’s titled The Sex Impulse and Achievement reads, “The sex instinct in a boy or man makes him want to act, dare, possess, strive…when controlled it gives ENERGY, ENDURANCE, FITNESS.” The poster features the image of track stars jumping over hurdles which is the perfect allusion to represent American society’s view of sex in the 1950’s and prior. Sex was seen as something necessary but dirty and taboo; sex was something you kept behind closed doors. The unclean aspect…