Gap Analysis: Global Communications
The confidence in the entire telecommunications industry is diminishing. Stockholders are realizing diminishing returns on their investment and are having doubts about the industry?s ability to regain past levels of profitability. Telecommunications companies are experiencing losses due to high levels of competition for the consumer dollars available. Cable companies have been allowed into the market to provide a single provider solution for television, broadband internet, and two-way voice communication. The leadership of Global Communication has the challenge before them of turning the declining profits of the previous three years into gains.
Situation Analysis
Issue and Opportunity Identification
The increase in competition and the reduction in shareholder confidence has had a large negative impact on Global Communications stock value. Over the past three years, its stock price declined from $28 per share to $11 per share. This 59% loss in shareholder value minimized confidence in the company and added to the telecommunications industry?s overall financial problems.
The senior leadership team has two policy changes in the works to help turn the decline of the company around and start back on the road to prosperity. The first is the introduction of new and more advanced communication services marketed to small business and individual consumers. These include wireless internet access via phone or personal computers, video, and remote network access through a virtual private network (VPN) to their company?s mainframe. Second, the senior leadership team has identified measures that will improve profits. In support of these initiatives, the company plans to implement an aggressive marketin...
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End-State Goals
The company has a method of communicating information to the employees with minimum chance for barriers to interfere. This will be accomplished within one month. The result will be measured by employee surveys.
The company will communicate with Union liaison proposed policy changes that affect union employees during the exploratory phase of planning in order to obtain all information related to the change. This will start immediately and be measured quarterly by interviews with union leaders.
The company with retain the majority of their intellectual capital by implementing retention bonuses. This will be communicated face-to- face by all supervisors to their subordinates to encourage willingness to accept changes in assignment; This will be measured by Human Resources staffing numbers. This will occur concurrently to the outsourcing announcement.
At this point the identity of the unknown compound was hypothesized to be calcium nitrate. In order to test this hypothesis, both the unknown compound and known compound were reacted with five different compounds and the results of those reactions were compared. It was important to compare the known and unknown compounds quantitatively as well to ensure that they were indeed the same compound. This was accomplished by reacting them both with a third compound which would produce an insoluble salt that could be filte...
In the first part of this project, two cation elimination tests and one cation confirmation test were performed. 10 drops of 4 cation solutions: potassium, zinc(II), copper(II)
A precipitation reaction can occur when two ionic compounds react and produce an insoluble solid. A precipitate is the result of this reaction. This experiment demonstrates how different compounds, react with each other; specifically relating to the solubility of the compounds involved. The independent variable, will be the changing of the various chemical solutions that were mixed in order to produce different results. Conversely the dependent variable will be the result of the independent variable, these include the precipitates formed, and the changes that can be observed after the experiment has been conducted. The controlled variable will be the measurement of ten droplets per test tube.
There was scattering present, which means that there are particles present in the solution, and the clear color means that there are no dyes or transitions metals present. The absorption was extremely low for this solution, meaning that there is a low concentration of particles in the solution. However, the compounds are ionic because there was a high conductivity for this solution. When NaOH was added, there was no precipitant, because all of those molecules are already present in the solution, or at least molecules that behave in a similar fashion. There was no change in the scattering when the sodium hydroxide was added, which means the particles present remained constant. A pH strip proved the solution was neutral, much like a salt would be. The solution, when mixed with solution 1, turned solution 1 blue. This change was most likely due to the presence of hydrogen and oxygens atoms in solution 3. When tap water was added to the solution, there was no change macroscopically or with the scattering. This most likely means the solution is made up of a salt dissolved in
A variety of extraction methods were employed in order to separate a strong acid, a weak acid, a strong base and neutral compound from solution. This is possible due to the presence of different functional groups in the organic mixture, which each provide distinct chemical properties. These individual properties are what allow the extraction of each compound. How these properties pertain to solubility is key to the separation of these compounds.
Our unknown solution, test tube 1024, contained mercury (I) and lead. Throughout the entire experiment, we performed the same reactions in a known solution that contained all three metal ions as a visual comparison to determine what qualities one should observe after each added compound. Because each ion was initially in a compound with nitrate (NO3) in an aqueous, solution we added hydrochloric acid (HCl) to both solutions, and both solutions formed a white precipitate. Because all three metal ions form a white precipitate when bonded with chlorine (Cl‐), it remained unclear which specific ions were present. We then decanted the supernatant and submerged each test tube with the remaining precipitate in a hot water bath. Lead (II) chloride,
Since Barium (Ba2+) is the only cation in this experiment which has this property, it was determined that the cation for this solution must be Ba2+. The solution was determined to be neutral, based on the litmus test results in Table 2. The anions which form a precipitate with Ba2+ were identified to be Cl-, NO3-, and SO42- using Table 4. Since precipitate was observed to be formed between solution B and solutions C,D, and F in the experiment, the possible anions were compared to determine which one followed these properties. Using the information in table 4, Cl- was declared the anion evident in solution B. Therefore, the solution B must be
The Mohr chloride titration method determines the chloride content in a solution in order determine molarity.
Background One. Tel was launched by Jodee Rich and Brad Keeling in 1995 (Cook, 2001). At first, it looked to get the advantages from deregulation of the telecommunication industry by reselling other network’s capacity and making money through stock market speculation. Rich and Keeling tried to increase the company’s shares rather than profit the company (Cook, 2001). Initially, One.
...ations served as background information for the calculations and for the general procedure of the lab. The solid acid, when added to water ionized to form charged particles causing the solution to have a certain pH that could be figured out from a titration curve graph. The acid used in this lab, KHP, ionized in water and formed Hydronium ions in the water. These ionized particles were what gave the acid a certain pH and those particles were what was being neutralized in the reaction. Multiple titrations were performed to neutralize the acid, in each titration, the lab groups attempted to reach the exact endpoint of the reaction without going over it. The endpoint was indicated by a slight color change in the solution to a pale pink color. When the endpoint was achieved, the calculations for the moles of acid to the moles of base were equal at that point.
Precipitation of complexes: when compounds are extracted with organic solvents and can be easily separated from aqueous solution this process is used to identify them
In order to discover the initial properties of the unknown compound, the group performed qualitative, quantitative, conductivity, anion, and cation tests. For the qualitative solubility test, solvents used were water, toluene, and acetone; the test helped determine if the compound was ionic or polar. The unknown dissolved in water, which had a pH of 7, therefore the compound was polar or ionic. The unknown did not dissolve in toluene or acetone, proving that the compound was not nonpolar. During the quantitative test, group members placed two grams of the unknown compound ten milliliters of water and measured how much compound would dissolve in a given volume of solution. Using an Erlenmeyer flask and a volumetric pipet, the students dissolved two grams of the unknown into ten milliliters of water and a precipitate
We intend to exploit our leadership role by continuing to target and enter segments of the communications market that we believe will experience rapid growth or grow faster than the industry as a whole....
The mixture was then cooled. Vacuum filtration was then performed on the mixture. This was done by carefully rinsing the precipitate mixture over moist, pre-weighed filter paper into a Büchner flask under vacuum. The residue was then moistened with ethanol while the flask was still under vacuum. The residue and filter paper were placed on a pre-weighed watch glass and weighed. They were then placed in a drying oven for about fifteen minutes and then reweighed. They were reweighed after a further five minutes in the oven and then again after another five minutes, so as to ensure the precipitate had been fully dried.
The business plan will also be useful in facilitating the adoption of a strategy that will help the business prosper in the modern market. The plan will be a critical tool that will help in the production of a reliable strategy for attaining the goals and objectives. The proposed business plan will be implemented in three years time. Within the first three years, the business i...