<p>The social change, with Internet as one of its innovations, is changing the way business is conducted. The main objective is to study and get a better understanding of the use of Internet as a new sales channel when there already exist a sales channel including middlemen. A description is made covering the decision situation and three areas that are affecting the decision - relationships to the middlemen, added value in the channels, and financials. European airlines as represented i Sweden and US airlines were interviewed. For explorative purposes interviews have been made with travel agents. No primary data is collected from the travel customers. Security issues and other barriers for Internet adoption are not studied. The conclusion of the study is that managers should focus on action more than"rational decison making". If the middlemen will be bypassed it is important to communicate with them. It is also necessary to have upper management's support. One of the driving forces for implementing Internet as a sales channel in the airline industry is to create customer ownership. Three generic formats for doing so is identified - learing relationship, verical facilitator, and meta intermediary.</p>

<p>This work is performed as a pre-study to investigate new business opportunities for companies who are product-centric oriented but want to move in the direction of being a customer-centric organization by using technologies based on networked products.</p><p>The study describes IntelliCom, which is a company selling network enabling products. IntelliCom has also developed a customized server solution making it possible to network remote installed products and collect data from these products over Internet. This technology that IntelliCom have knowledge in could be a platform for providing data and different kind of services by connecting customer’s devices, which aim to generate a value for the customer and be a new business opportunity for product-centric companies.</p><p>The research is mainly based on observations and dialogs with management and sales people of IntelliCom to investigate how the marketing strategies and marketing mix is used when selling products. To be able to collect data and information about the customer’s value and opportunities, I have made an Interview with a potential customer of IntelliCom who is an OEM company already proving products and services in line with a customer-centric business strategy. This customer is Woodward and manufacturer of GenSet controllers within the energy/electrical segment. The observations and information collected from customer were analysed to understand and to be able to describe how customer’s value chain and smart services opportunities relate to each other.</p><p>The study shows that the opportunity for IntelliCom to start using the new technology to increasing the sales of data and services, not only products, is good. The study points out that IntelliCom should chose a business model that targeting OEM companies. IntelliCom should limit the offer to provide unprocessed data and let the OEM customer process data to provide smart services to their customers worldwide.</p>

<p>This study deals with a research on what the opening sounds in movies tell us about the story that we are about to follow. The purpose is to examine if and how the sound in the first five minutes of the movie contribute in giving information about the film’s genre. The theoretical base includes both genre theory and Michel Chion’s theory on film sound. Six different movies representing different genres, countries and year of production are analyzed in an audiovisual way.</p><p>The result shows that the sound in the opening sequence could describe the genre which the movie belongs to, but it doesn’t always work like this. The analysis also shows examples on movies where the sound in the beginning of the movie focus on other things, like describing place or ethnicity. In some of the movies, especially the ones that represent adventure and action, you can hear the genre very clearly. In others, for example the comedy, there is a bit harder to decide if the sound alone could tell us about which genre the movie belongs to, and if the sound is typical for that specific genre or if it could be about almost everything. Furthermore, in some movies it was quite clear that the sound concentrates on describing something else instead, for example the place where the story is set.</p>

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A “Value-Added” definition of school effectiveness calls for the evaluation of schools based on the unique contribution of schools to individual student academic growth. The estimates of value-added school effectiveness are usually used for ranking and classifying schools. The current simulation study examined and compared the validity of school effectiveness estimates in four statistical models for school ranking and classification. The simulation study was conducted under two sample size conditions and the situations typical in school effectiveness research. The Conditional Cross-Classified Model (CCCM) was used to simulate data. The findings indicated that the gain score model adjusting for students’ test scores at the end of kindergarten (i. e., prior entering to an elementary school) (Gain_kindergarten) could validly rank and classify schools. Other models, including the gain score model adjusting for students’ test scores at the end of Grade 4 (i. e., one year before estimating the school effectiveness in Grade 5) (Gain_grade4), the Unconditional Cross-Classified Model (UCCM), and the Layered Mixed Effect Model (LMEM), could not validly rank or classify schools. The failure of the UCCM model in school ranking and classification indicated that ignoring covariates would distort school rankings and classifications if no other analytical remedies were applied. The failure of the LMEM model in school ranking and classification indicated that estimation of correlations among repeated measures could not alleviate the damage caused by the omitted covariates. The failure of the Gain_grade4 model cautioned against adjustment using the test scores of the previous year. The success of the Gain_kindergarten model indicated that under some circumstances, it was possible to achieve valid school rankings and classifications with only two time points of data.

This work is performed as a pre-study to investigate new business opportunities for companies who are product-centric oriented but want to move in the direction of being a customer-centric organization by using technologies based on networked products. The study describes IntelliCom, which is a company selling network enabling products. IntelliCom has also developed a customized server solution making it possible to network remote installed products and collect data from these products over Internet. This technology that IntelliCom have knowledge in could be a platform for providing data and different kind of services by connecting customer’s devices, which aim to generate a value for the customer and be a new business opportunity for product-centric companies. The research is mainly based on observations and dialogs with management and sales people of IntelliCom to investigate how the marketing strategies and marketing mix is used when selling products. To be able to collect data and information about the customer’s value and opportunities, I have made an Interview with a potential customer of IntelliCom who is an OEM company already proving products and services in line with a customer-centric business strategy. This customer is Woodward and manufacturer of GenSet controllers within the energy/electrical segment. The observations and information collected from customer were analysed to understand and to be able to describe how customer’s value chain and smart services opportunities relate to each other. The study shows that the opportunity for IntelliCom to start using the new technology to increasing the sales of data and services, not only products, is good. The study points out that IntelliCom should chose a business model that targeting OEM companies. IntelliCom should limit the offer to provide unprocessed data and let the OEM customer process data to provide smart services to their customers worldwide.

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The social change, with Internet as one of its innovations, is changing the way business is conducted. The main objective is to study and get a better understanding of the use of Internet as a new sales channel when there already exist a sales channel including middlemen. A description is made covering the decision situation and three areas that are affecting the decision - relationships to the middlemen, added value in the channels, and financials. European airlines as represented i Sweden and US airlines were interviewed. For explorative purposes interviews have been made with travel agents. No primary data is collected from the travel customers. Security issues and other barriers for Internet adoption are not studied. The conclusion of the study is that managers should focus on action more than"rational decison making". If the middlemen will be bypassed it is important to communicate with them. It is also necessary to have upper management's support. One of the driving forces for implementing Internet as a sales channel in the airline industry is to create customer ownership. Three generic formats for doing so is identified - learing relationship, verical facilitator, and meta intermediary.

This research paper focuses on whether Taiwan's 13 financial holding companies (excluding Waterland Financial Holdings) belongs to the bank's capital management efficiency, using a narrow definition of capital. First, do a preliminary analysis of the capital of the banks first, second, and three types of capital. Secondly, the use of supplementary items in the balance sheet, profit and loss account and balance-sheet and some of the information into the banking book assets and liabilities of the banking book and trading book assets, trading book liabilities, risk assets and market value-added and other programs in order to do all kinds of bank trend analysis of assets and liabilities and capital management. Finally, I would investigate whether the high capital adequacy ratio that their performance is better? The provisions of the Basel ¢º want to improve the bank's risk management capability, however, and set out the statutory capital requirements of the Bank help to keep the emphasis on risk management?