Continuous integration

Playing catchup today, so this will be the first a few post that have been piling up on me. Some will be posted here and some on Star Wars Episode 7 is fanfiction. So a word about the EU Rebellion and the Alliance. They are not the same thing. And this is what tends to calls the most legitimate contention with the Alliance. And I mean legitimate as in people of the EU Rebellion joining with a misunderstanding of what the Alliance is; as oppose to illegitimate being trolls. The Alliance is part…

Vertical integration is defined by a strategy in which a company expands its operations either backward into industries that produce inputs for its core products or forward into industries that use, distribute or sell it products (Hill 180). Wal-Mart has used vertical integration to bring the company to the point that they are today. When they begin they were small stores that had very little purchasing power. The supplier are the ones that created the prices and the prices tended to by high.…

Excessive welfare. High taxes. Better women representation. Sclerotic economy. These are the first few words that come to mind when Europe is mentioned. Due to the American media’s filtering, Europe is portrayed as a “sick old man, condemned to long term decline,” thus it is common why may Americans have a false notion about what Europe’s vision is about (Hill, 153). In his book ‘Europe’s Promise” Steven Hill challenges all these myths instilled in many Americans, emphasizing why European model…

The Fundamentality of the Arts in Public Education Picture a barren wasteland, empty of any thought that branches outside of normality. Beige walls decorate bland streets filled with broken dreams and sullied minds. This is the world without art. Earth takes breaths of life and joy because we strive to create. The world needs art, not for survival, but for the sake of its people. To rephrase: humanity needs art. Art and music help to fuel the brain, these fields of creativity are challenging…

Introduction According to Hope, (2016) evaluation of the strategy of the learning and talent development is far more essential that its development. It has to be aligned with the overall organizational strategy and match with the corporate objectives of the organization for a better and improved outcome. Discussion Organizational Problems at Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) It is observed through several sources that RBS is currently facing several organizational problems across its different…

“We are on the brink of a civil war,” said Patrick Calvar, Head of France Domestic Security Agency, after the numerous terroristic attacks in 2016. The growing coalition of ISIS has caused an increased number of terrorist linked attacks throughout Europe. After the 2015 attack on Paris the attacks continued in Nice, Germany, Normandy and Brussels.The first and bloodiest of a sequence of attacks taking place within two weeks took place in Nice, 84 people were killed when man drive a truck…

Business Plan Over the past few years business owners of Australia have been hit hard with the financial burdens that the current markets are delivering. The board of Westfarmers have been looking at ways to benefit the company and the lower division companies which branch off. They have come up with a solution which will both impact but also benefit the Australian community and the employees within the two major businesses; Blackwoods and Protector Alsafe. Both companies are owned and operated…

robber barons, such as Rockefeller and Carnegie dominating a huge portion of the nation’s capital. With this money, horizontal and vertical integration was inevitable and soon, monopolies, trusts, and oligopolies thrived like never before. Horizontal integration being the buying of companies that sell your product to eliminate competition, and vertical integration being purchasing companies that make objects needed to create your product. “The Monster Monopoly” by Frank Beard depicts The…

In this paper, it will be argued that Cadez’s (2011) Strategy, strategic management accounting and performance: A Configurational Analysis, is an interesting but challenging piece of research. The argument will be developed through a critical review of Cadez’s paper, discussing in turn its research methods, and practical implications. The paper reports a study of 254 of the largest Slovenian manufacturing companies although only 109 were usable. The research is concerned with manufacturing…

Efficiency - enhancing practices that Nike is pursuing are as following: a) Economies of scale – defined as “reduction in unit costs attributed to a large output” (Hill, Jones & Schilling 2015, p.119). Nike is the single largest producer of athletic footwear and apparel. This allows Nike, through the large scale of outputs, to achieve a large cost advantages over its competition. b) Learning effects – defined as “cost saving that come from learning by doing” (Hill, Jones & Schilling 2015,…