If you’ve been unlucky enough to be given an 0x8007232B error when you’re trying to activate your Windows operating system, you know how frustrating it can be. The simple fix for this issue is to find the link to change your product key (on Server 2008, right click on the computer icon, then choose properties [...]
I’m currently setting up a development server with Windows 2008 64-bit on it and the drivers for my Linksys LNE100TX weren’t working (even from the disk!). After a few hours of searching, I found a post on the Linksys support forums that provides an answer: Hello Everyone. I’m sure many of you are as frustrated [...]
Many things go into knowing your target market which can be summed up if you know the four P’s: product, price, place, and promotion. Every company needs to at least have a very general idea about these categories before going to market or they’ll be sorely unprepared should any unexpected situations occur. This goes for [...]
Blockbuster was one of the nations premiere video rental retail stores until recently. With the advent of the internet and online shopping, customers are more willing to use their credit card online to consume “all you can eat” entertainment rentals. Blockbuster’s CEO James Keyes has said that Netflix is taking “demand out of the market” [...]
Previous Market Segments Previous to 2004, RIM’s devices were slanted towards corporate and business users starting with it’s Inter@ctive Pager 900 (Ziegler, 5). It’s mobile phone product lines didn’t become popularized until email became a mission critical application. RIM saw the potential in email and grew it’s business along with the popularization of the then nascent technology. [...]
CSMi has a wide portfolio of healthcare products. One product is an electronic health records system (EHR) that tracks injuries, treatments, and all related information called SportsWare. They sell to a variety of market segments of which are listed below. Primary Segments Schools – The SportsWare product is sold primarily to high schools and colleges/universities [...]
Syntex is a discount high definition LCD maker that generates revenues by undercutting their name brand competitors. Their low prices and feature sets that are comparable to their competition are their unique selling points (USP). Every company has a marketing plan whether it’s formal or not. Let’s analyze Olevia’s use of the four P’s: Price, [...]
Environmental concerns may be on everyone’s mind, but until the cold hard facts of a cost/benefit analysis weight high on American’s minds, going green is the way to go. General Motors has put a lot of capital behind building cleaner E85 (also known as Flex Fuel) cars. They promote the cars as being cleaner for [...]
Financial ratio analysis aimed at determining a business’s financial strength and condition. The Current and Quick Ratios are commonly used to evaluate a company’s ability to pay it’s short term obligations.
While RIM’s current and quick ratios seem low on first glance, it’s important to consider the business as a going concern. RIM had a higher than the current year’s industry average in 2007 because it’s current liabilities grew from almost half the current industry average to 3.35 times the industry average current liabilities. This increase can be explained by the release of the BlackBerry Storm, which was released November 4th, 2008.
Let’s take a look at how to value an organization. We’ll take the following company as an example: Wide-Comm Wireless provides wireless broadband service using Wi-Max, a largely unproven technology, on a wide scale. As expected the company lost money it’s first few years as it built it’s infrastructure. It does not expect to reach [...]
I came across an interesting topic while reading “Trading and Exchanges”, by Larry Harris. It dealt with shifting cash flows in time. I personally love learning of new topics, and this definitely was a paradigm shifter for me. I decided to dig a bit deeper to see what else I could learn about the topic. [...]
I think one of the most challenging aspects of portfolio project management (PPM) is actually implementing a PPM system. In my experience, changing the culture of an organization that is used to ad hoc project selection/project management requires a significant ROI, and even then may not be implemented because management is not comfortable with such [...]
Project management can be a difficult enough endeavor, but managing a multi-cultural project team can add additional differences as well. It’s important to remember that not all of the differences that arise are negative. The three main differences are: Team member motivation (Anbari 2010) Communication style Heterogeneous idea generation Team Member Motivation According to Geert [...]
My current company manufactures hardware and develops software that assists Athletic Trainers perform their job duties. They have numerous projects that run concurrently to design and develop new hardware and software revisions. Every fiscal year management develops a list of key strategic goals that will improve the company over the next year. Each proposed project [...]
