Thinking Maps

collaboratively with key suppliers, to produce high performance, competitively priced reliable vehicles that are sold and serviced through the best deal networks in Brazil. This will appeal to middle and upper-class consumers. Analysis The strategy map in Exhibit 4 and Balance Scorecard in Exhibit 5 help with the implementation of the new strategy. This is further discussed below in the strengths and weaknesses: Strengths: If one looks at the Brazilian flag, the national colors are yellow…

A Critical Review of the Seven Habit of a Systems Savvy Person Introduction In Dynamic Systems for everyone chapter ten, Ghosh Asish mentions the seven habits of a system savvy person. He discusses what the differences are between looking all phenomena to understand the systems and looking to the systems into their parts to examine each part properties. The author discusses how the principle of all is better than the holistic world view can help a system savvy person to create right…

This concept map tool was revised from a research outcome by Chang, Sung & Chen (2001) and was used for evaluating the empirical student-created concept maps by Chang and colleague in 2005. The tool assigned weights to the relationship links between the nodes and integrated weighted concept maps into the assessment criteria, so as to help provide a quantitative analysis to display the various learning states of students. The scholars proposed that the learning states contained: 1) a proposition…

Apex Sketch takes a sketch export out of your assessing.net database and creates a GIS building shapefile map layer. From this sketch file you overlay a aerial photo and the sketch variances from the actual aerial photo stand out like a sore thumb when they are set at the same scale. Apex has a sketch technician that painstakingly reviews each property, parcel by parcel. I had previously done similar work while working in the Monroe County Equalization Department under Mike Woolford. Mike…

Cox Communications is a broadcasting and telecommunications industry that provides entertainment and broadband communications for businesses in the U.S. (United States). They provide cable (digital video), high-speed internet, home security, and digital phone services. Cox Communications has been in business since 1962, and their headquarters are located in Atlanta, Georgia (Neel, 2012). Cox Communications is one of several companies that offer Connect2Compete to low-income families across the…

2.4 Place attachment Essentially, the term place attachment refers to ‘affective bond’ between people (individuals or group) and a significant environment, which is developing over time (Scannell and Gifford, 2010). However, due to ‘the proliferation of concepts and measurements proposed for characterising emotional bonds between humans and places’ (Manzo and Devine-Wright, 2014, p. 125), place attachment has a diversity of definitions. These definitions, however, remain scattered in the…

and momentous or trivial. All of these are taken into consideration to determine if the hypothesis can be considered as a legitimate option, James states that a legitimate option has to have the standards of being live, forced and momentous. When thinking about the existence of God James believes that there is…

The benefits and consequences of headphones are widely debated and whether or not their benefits outway their consequences is a topic of controversy among many. There are those who assert that headphones are a great invention and despite their negative effect on a person’s hearing over time they are worth it. On the other hand there are those who argue that despite the usefulness of headphones they are not worth the anti-social behavior they promote and the damaging effect that they have on ears…

We have arrived to our third stop, the complex, busy and hectic city, EWP Outcome #3! The third outcome aims "to produce complex, analytic, persuasive arguments that matter in academic contexts." I believe that the first and second major paper demonstrate my ability to derive a complex claim in order to make a compelling argument. 1. The argument is appropriately complex, based in a claim that emerges from and explores a line of inquiry. In the first major paper, I have produced a complex…

child. Once again, Lafrance is aware of her audience. She uses frightening consequences that demand fear from the reading parent, making her argument personal. It hits close to home for those with any contact with children, forcing them to consider thinking twice about what they may share of their little ones on the internet. In summation, in Adrienne Lafrance’s article “The Perils of ‘Sharenting,’” published in The Atlantic, the author proves her credibility as an aware social media user…