Innovation of Philippine Bookstore Chains One of the recent news items is that Borders declared bankruptcy‚ while over at Australia‚ Angus & Robertson is similarly in danger. I’m not here to discuss what Borders or Angus & Robertson did wrong. What I do want to talk about‚ however‚ are Philippine bookstore chains. Until the mid 1990s‚ there were two major bookstore chains: National Bookstore and Goodwill Bookstore. That’s not to say there weren’t independent bookstores at the time: La Solidardid
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CAN THIS BOOKSTORE BE SAVED? Case Study By Vladimir Pimentel Barnes and Nobles is one of the biggest bookstores that has a brick-and-mortal store concept. In the past they were know as a “big bully” that drove small book stores to close down because of their aggressive tactics to have competetetive advantage over them. Nonetheless‚ with the evolving circle of technology they have had a hard time in keeping up with the E-book era. In 2014 E-books increased its reader subscription by 28%
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BAR DIAGRAMS Bar diagrams are one of easiest and the most commonly used devices of presenting most of the business and economic data. These are satisfactory for categorical data or series. They consist a group of equidistant rectangles‚ one of each group or category of the data in which the values or the magnitudes are represented by the length or height of the rectangles‚ the width of the rectangles being arbitrary and immaterial. These diagrams are called one-dimensional because in such diagrams
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With the kingship diagram‚ I am focusing on my matrilineal descent. Kingship is a word use by anthropologists to describe certain family relationships; while a kingship diagram is basically a family tree. Fictive kin members bring character and different cultural beliefs into the family. Even though they are not part of the immediate family‚ they are still part of the family in relation; therefore they still represent the family and are included in all family activities. Sometimes it is good to have
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THE PLOT DIAGRAM The plot diagram: most people learn about it somewhere in elementary school‚ and indeed‚ it is the most elementary of tools a writer and reader can use in summarizing and outlining a story. It is so basic and flexible that pretty much every story written in existence can be outlined via the plot diagram. And yet‚ there are stories that‚ when outlined‚ twist the plot diagram into interesting shapes‚ which leads me to suspect that there is a missing step in the plot diagram: the elusive
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1.0 INTRODCUTION 1 1.1 BACKGROUND 1 1.2 EQUATORIAL COMMERCIAL BANK 2 1.3 MOTIVATION FOR UNDERTAKING THE PROJECT 3 1.4 THE PROBLEM STATEMENT 4 1.5 BENEFITS OF THE PROPOSED SYSTEM 5 1.5.1 Online Banking – How Is It Different 5 1.5.2 Why Use Online Banking 5 1.6 PROJECT OBJECTIVES 6 1.7 SYSTEM OBJECTIVES 7 1.8 SCOPE OF THE SYSTEM 7 CHAPTER 2-LITERATURE REVIEW 8 2.1 DEFINING E-BANKING/ONLINE BANKING 8 2.2 FEATURES OF ONLINE BANKING 8 2.3 E-BANKING IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES 9 2.4 E-BANKING IN PAKISTAN
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Question 1 Characteristics of bad systems To be useful‚ the information system must possess the characteristic of reliability‚ relevance‚ understandability‚ complete‚ accurate and comparability. However‚ in order for Encik Khalid to detect problems occur with the current or new system are based on the characteristics of bad system which are unreliable‚ irrelevance‚ not understandable‚ incomplete‚ inaccurate‚ and incomparable. The first characteristic is unreliable. Encik Khalid may detect the
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Share on emailShare on printShare on linkedinShare on twitterShare on facebookMore Sharing Services Fishbone Diagram Background The Cause & Effect‚ or Fishbone Diagram‚ was first used by Dr. Kaoru Ishikawa of the University of Tokyo in 1943 - hence its frequent reference as a "Ishikawa Diagram". This diagram is used to identify all of the contributing root causes likely to be causing a problem. This methodology can be used on any type of problem‚ and can be tailored by the user to fit the
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Amazon.com—Not Your Average Bookstore Jeffrey Bezos‚ CEO and founder of Amazon.com‚ is running what some people refer to as the “world’s biggest bookstore.” The story of Bezos’s virtual bookstore teaches many lessons about online business. Out of nowhere‚ this digital bookstore turned an industry upside down. What happened here was more than just creating a Web site. Bezos conceived and implemented an intelligent‚ global digital business. Its business is its technology; its technology is its business
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ABSTRACT A Student management is a very important part of university management‚ and according to the actual situation of the school work‚ student management system can not only improve the efficiency of staff and students‚ but can also be a time and resources saver. In this project‚ object oriented design methods are applied to the development of the system. The author will use Rational Rose UML modeling to complete the requirement analysis of the student management system‚ and the functionality
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