simple steps to writing a case study

... investigation is not an acceptable decision for any case study that you will analyse. A manager can always delay making a decision to gather more information, which is not managing at all! The ... environmental impact. 2. Measurable, at least to the point of comparison, such as alternative A will improve profitability more that alternative B. 3. Be related to your problem statement, and alternatives. ... criteria very confusing, so you will probably find that you re-write them several times as you analyse the case. They are similar to constraints or limitations, but are used to evaluate alternatives....

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... and customer service was good”. In total, MacDonald achieved a higher overall mean value than Max hamburger. In terms of standard deviation, we found out that MacDonald had a larger standard ... can be said to have a larger degree of dispersion of data around the mean than Max hamburger in those attributes. Max hamburger had a larger standard deviation than MacDonald in these attributes“serving ... attachment that a customer has to a brand”. It can also be seen as consumer’s preference to purchase a particular brand in a product class and this could be as a result of the consumer awareness about...

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... understand more how a company builds and manages its brand to get the full benefit from that, a study into the case of LiOA brand at Nhat Linh Co. Ltd., an auto voltage stabilizer (AVS)manufacturer ... strong brand. To understand more how a company builds and manages its brand to get the full benefit from it, a study into the case of the LiOA brand at Nhat Linh Co., Ltd., an auto voltage stabilizer ... decision. ã To evaluate the consumers awareness towards LiOA brand in details. ã To understand the consumers evaluation on the strengths and weaknesses of LiOA AVS and LiOA’s marketing mix. On the basis...

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... of each paragraph focus on the main ideas of the paragraph's topic sentence? ã Does each paragraph advance the paper in a logical and systematic way? ã Are the paragraphs too long? Are ... within the paragraph that doesn't relate to the thesis? This strategy can also be used within each paragraph to check each paragraph's topic sentence and main points. Topic Sentence ... Coherence A strategy to test the overall coherence and balance of a paper is to copy the thesis of the paper and each topic sentence (generally the first sentence of each paragraph) and the paste all...

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... size to start with Knowledge Management: Either to start organization spanning or start in a functional department. Raub and Wittich emphasize that Knowledge Management is a gradual process [RaWi04]. ... the capability of a FAQ-Database of a ticket system: During the pre -study it became evident that Company A has a much bigger demand for a Knowledge Base than it was expected. Basically all employees ... classification of data being facts is wrong. Data itself can hardly be facts, but represent facts. In that sense data is regarded as measured values. This leads over to the last definition Davenport...

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... & Case Study A Case Study on the Implementation of A Knowledge Management Strategy Oriented to Innovation Francisco J. Forcadell 1 * and Fa ´ tima Guadamillas 2 1 Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, ... creation and transmission in working teams is an essential cultural value. At Irizar, participation is the Knowledge and Process Management CASE STUDY A Knowledge Management Strategy Oriented to ... creation, accumulation and trans- mission of knowledge. CASE STUDY Knowledge and Process Management 166 F. J. Forcadell and F. Guadamillas * Autonomy for taking decisions and tolerance of the mistakes...

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... variable length, generally connecting a cata- lytic domain bearing the active site to a carbohydrate- binding module, which mediates attachment to the macromolecular substrate [1–5]. Significantly, ... Crassos- trea gigas (Mollusca, Bivalvia). Sequence data were depos- ited in GenBank (Table S1). Searches in databases Using the putative C-terminal domain of C. fluminea as a query, sequence databases ... species, but mainly in nonvertebrate animals, and invariably connected via a linker to an animal-type a- amylase (listed in Table S1), as shown in Fig. 1. More specifically, the primary structure...

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... he was pleased to take part in our investigation. 6.2. Approach of the study Adopting the case study approach of the qualitative tradition, the study aims at exploring how this particular ... the abstract and unquantifiable nature of data from a qualitative study (Merriam [20]). For this very reason, the case study design which can provide insights as well as result in a “rich and ... Adopting the case study approach, the researcher analyzed in detail observational data collected while six advanced ESL students were writing a “course-related writing task” (Zamel [5]). Although...

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... The drawback of this approach is that the attacker can easily change f and then we need to analyze the binary again, thus we are always one step Figure 1: Keys generated by Storm in order to find ... the routing tables are called contacts and are organized as an unbal- anced routing tree. Each contact consists of the node’s DHT ID, IP address, and UDP port. A peer a stores only a few contacts to peers ... first Storm-related message we are aware of was received on December 29, 2006: It contained best wishes for the year 2007 and as an attachment a copy of the Storm binary. An analysis of this archive...

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... data collection, data analysis, data interpretation, manuscript writing, and final approval of manuscript. CN was involved in the conception and design of the study and data interpretation. AL ... Health 1993, 65:71-74. 25. Cardona A, Marhuenda D, Prieto MJ, Marti J, Periago J-F, Sanchez J-M: Behaviour of urinary 2,5-hexanedione in occupational co-exposure to n- hexane and acetone. Int Arch ... Environ Health 1996, 68:88-93. 26. Baldasseroni A, Bavazzano P, Buiatti E, Lanciotti E, Lorini C, Biggeri A: Occupational exposure to n-hexane in Italy, analysis of a registry of biological monitoring....

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... patients on ARVs and associated costs and total costs Year New cases starting ARVs a Total cases on ARVs a Total ARV diagnostic costs (ZAR million) b Total ARV drug costs (ZAR million) c Total ... government toward implementing the com- prehensive plan was damaged by the attitude towards HIV/AIDS and its treatment by Minister Tshabalala-Msi- mang and President Mbeki. Tshabalala-Msimang's administration ... President Thabo Mbeki and his Minister of Health, Dr Manto Tshabalala-Msimang. The movement towards a national ART programme in South Africa was an ambitious undertaking, the likes of which had not...

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... with tunable size. ZnO has drawn great attention due to its applications in short wave length photonic devices [23–27]. In this paper, we design a general strategy to fabricate nanoscale cavity in ... can be good candidates for optoelectronic applications. Therefore, it is reasonable to deduce that, after appropriate modification to this method, hollow octahedra of more thermodynamically stable ... FT-IR spectrum of the ZnO sample after calcination. The peak around 3,400 cm -1 is substantially abated. Though many researches have been done to tailor the shape and size of the materials to enrich their...

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... instead. This makes it possible to have the ECCinitialstate always activated and to associate one successor with the stopping and another suc- cessor with the starting algorithm. 4.2.4. FB—StartUpChain To ... bandwidth to a necessary minimum if only algorithm with changed input data is executed and only data packages with changed data values are transmitted. Concerning the self-reconfiguration of a control ... the functionality to cal- culate the average value of a data point and to register the daily and monthwise power consumption. To test a function block with a wide-spread functionality and huge memory consumption,...

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... not a significant relationship between the total agricultural land area of the households and their livelihood strategy, agricultural land area per capita as well as agricultural land area ... livelihood assets including natural capital, human capital, physical capital, financial capital and social capital. Those households who have more livelihood assets tend to take more advantage of ... Table 5. Agricultural land area per capita and livelihood strategy. Household livelihood strategy Mean of agricultural land area per capita (m 2 per capita) N Standard Deviation (1) Agricultural...

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