Carrollton, Georgia is 40 miles west of Atlanta and has quiet tree-lined residential streets, an active commercial center and a most important regional resource, the university. In new educational buildings, the requirements for HVAC systems are often challenging. The systems need to be architecturally unobtrusive, yet be fully accessible for...
In the organizational growth stage the initial stage is outside expertise. Then development of home-country personnel for international operations and country and third-country nationals for specific assignments is the next stage. This presentation talks about these stages during human resource management. It includes the factors determining the choice and selection...
Article focuses advertising planning and strategy. Strategic planning helps in making intelligent decisions. It is the process of determining objectives deciding on strategies and implementing the tactics. It gives the description of business planning process that includes information related to business mission statement, external environment, and internal environment. It focuses...
Competition, for an organization, stems from many quarters. They include cost structures, current and past strategies, and organizational culture. Competitive advantage is the measure of a firm’s competencies and performance against the factors prevailing in the firm’s external environment. The organization needs to analyze competition and devise suitable strategies to...
Strategic planning involves planning for the attainment of long term goals and objectives of an organization. Advertising forms a part of the promotional mix of the organization. It is a means to convey the message about the company’s product or service amongst the target audience. The advertising strategy is crafted...
The growth in corporate sector usually occurs due to internal expansion. The growth in normal capital budgeting activities leads to overall expansion of a firm. However, of late, the trend of corporate mergers has spread across the industrial sector resulting in increased profitability. The paper explains the concept of Mergers,...
Self-management implies managing all the affairs ‘alone’ with little or no supervision. In sales management parlance, self-management means chalking out and operationalizing the different steps in the sales management process on an individual basis. It includes assessing the potential sales territories and executing effective time management. The paper examines these...
The Strengths, Opportunities, Weaknesses, and Threats SWOT is a tool to identify the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats in context of an organization. Environmental scanning involves studying and interpreting the trends and opportunities prevailing in the general environment of the organization. The SWOT tool and environmental scanning helps in devising...
Promotion involves informing, persuading, and reminding the target audience about the product on offer. It influences the purchase decision of the individual. Several channels are available for propagating the message. They include advertising, sales promotion, and publicity. The effective and judicious use of these channels in conveying the message is...
The close of a sales negotiation is one of the most important aspects of the sales negotiation process. A successful close marks the beginning of a long and perennial relationship between the buyer and the seller. At the macro level, a successful close of sale can be seen as an...
This article highlights six relevant rules by a SECURE model of the analytical process. Also, various quality aspects are discussed in the concluding part of this paper. The six rules according to the author are—Define markets’ structure, Scan all your environment, Define changes clearly, Understand implications of changes, Review inventories...
Phil Steele's annual College Football Preview has ranked the University of Utah and Brigham Young University among the top 20 teams in its preseason top 25 college football poll. The Utes are ranked 14th in the publication's preseason poll, while BYU is ranked 17th. ...
Phil Steele's College Football Preview has ranked the University of Utah and Brigham Young University among the top 20 of its preseason top 25 college football poll. The Utes are ranked 14th in the publication's preseason poll, while BYU is ranked 17th. Phil Steele's...
This Is Love: Minister Corey Eugene Robinson joined in holy matrimony with Tiffany Sakito Hall at the Pristine Lakeside Chapel in Jonesboro, GA. The bride, a graduate of Alabama A & M University, is a physician consultant at OMI Diagnostics. The groom is a graduate of the University of West...
The Kremlin may act triumphant, but Russia is losing its hold on the youth of former Soviet states. It’s been more than a century since a member of the Mebagishvili family of Tbilisi, Georgia, grew up not speaking Russian. Like educated clans all over the Russian Empire, the...
By Tim Carpenter THE CAPITAL-JOURNAL A coalition in Athens, Ga., wants to locate the National Bio- and Agro-Defense Facility on a 67-acre horse pasture owned by the University of Georgia. The Gulf States consortium is convinced the best spot for the...
By Tim Carpenter THE CAPITAL-JOURNAL A coalition in Athens, Ga., wants to locate the National Bio- and Agro-Defense Facility on a 67-acre horse pasture owned by the University of Georgia. The Gulf States consortium is convinced the best spot for the...
2008 State Conferences(as of April 14, 2008)This list contains only those state MTA conferencesheld during the fall months.State Date LocationGeorgia ...
Entrepreneurs in the USA launched more small businesses in 2007 than the year before in the West, the Midwest and the South -- apparently not scared of the economic slowdown that began last year, according to a report released Thursday. Regions and states with stronger economic and population...
