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Subject: Housing Difference and Diversity   Assignment One: A research project and ‘show and tell’ on Housing Register Exclusions   Local authorities and registered housing providers routinely block access to social housing for people who are in housing need. People can be excluded from social housing registers because of some ‘offense’ or because they have failed to meet criteria adopted by the housing provider.   Under the Localism Act 2011 local authorities were given the power to determine what classes of persons are or are not qualified to be allocated housing. Although certain categories of people must be given reasonable preference for housing, other groups may be excluded altogether. Registered providers are also able to exclude or temporarily suspend applicants. The most common reasons for exclusion are on the grounds of previous rent arrears or anti-social behaviour. Research published in 2001 showed that 16 per cent of ‘active’ applicants were temporarily exclude

New Research Methods class for GW business students. Basic info is as follows: BUSI 1319 BABS – Consultancy Project 5. Assessment Details 1. Proposal – 20% 1,000 words. 2. Report – 65% 7,500 words. 3. Presentation – 15% 15 minutes. Minimum pass mark – 40% 5.1 Summary of assessment Assessment Title Weight towards final grade Length Due Date Anonymous Submission Required? Anticipated Return Date Header Sheet number Proposal 20% 1,000 Report 65% 7,500 Presentation 15% 15 Minutes BUSI0011 BABM – Dissertation 5.         Assessment Details 5.1      Summary of assessment Assessment Title Weight towards final grade Length Due Date Anonymous Submission Required? Anticipated Return Date Header Sheet number Research Ethics 0% n/a Draft Literature Review 10% 3,000 Dissertation 85% 10,000

Key concepts of Business Systems Analysis Nov 2014 Systems Development Life Cycle Intangible benefits (software project evaluation) Activity diagram CASE tools Project team roles in IS projects Gantt chart Installation strategies (direct cutover vs parallel run) Rich picture building Criteria for sourcing off-the-shelf software vendors Benefits of using methodology in IS development Evolutionary prototyping in software development RAD: timeboxing and SWAT team

For coming SMA class exercises: details are as follows: SMA class exercise Textbook 11.11 ABC exercise 3   Professor Tayles exercise Q4

My comment on student’s SMA assignment (doc 1) Hello Student A Content reads like lecture notes; mainly explanatory and not clearly address assignment themes. Not OK. Try to address tasks as specified in assignment and also refer to my assignment report template for info. Assignment is not about writing explanation notes per se. It is not clear why you omit my advice: http://josephkkhoworkdiary.blogspot.hk/2014/09/assignment-report-structure-sma-2014.html Joseph Email from student (doc 2) From student A I have read your website but I asked you "Could I change your title?" in the your lecture. You said I can. And I also asked you, "The assignment topic can be surrounded to write the EVA", you also said OK. Therefore, I written that. Could you let me know the assignment I need write it again or not? Student A My reply: (doc 3) Dear Student A Let me be specific: "Could I change your title?" in the your lecture. Y

The following links are resources for SMA classes, e.g. exercise answers clarification, etc. Folder 1 Folder 2 Folder 3    (2014 Oct class specific)

SMA File names: Exercise ABC 2 Exercise ABC exercise 3 Relevance cost analysis exercise 2 SMA exercise notes 10 (10.12) SMA seminar exercise G2 Pls bring along the questions with you to the classes. Dated: Oct 25, 2014 

Course info on Business Systems Analysis - Oct 2014 Previous course info Related Facebook folder Soft systems class exercise: To construct a rich picture based on the following info: Education centre: RABS Key issues: students enrollment drops and students' passing rates drops Root definition: An online customer-relationship management system run by RABS admin to improve education service quality so as to improve students' passing rates and students' enrollment within tight financial constraint and much time pressure Conduct a CATWOE analysis and a conceptual model

Following info is for dissertation workshop of Business Studies and Business Mgt (GW), Oct 25, 2014 Previous note Mgt consulting folder Business Research folder (FB)

SMA topics next week: cover the rest of Chapter 12 and then Chapter 19 (with EVA, etc).

The following topics are covered: (also follow course teaching plan) SMA, including balanced scorecard and Intellectual Capital Some briefing on EVA for students' assignment preparation Maybe ABC

While I am fully supportive of the protesters' ultimate goals in general, I have disagreement with their tactics; I also notice that there are people who see things only from one perspective: e.g. fully support the police (and never suggest the police may have done something wrong sometimes..) and anything against the law must be wrong (based on what they say; they never say things from another perspective). There are people who are multi-perspective and there are people who choose to see and complain things only from one perspective.  I much prefer and recommend the multi-perspective stance in problem-solving and investigation personally, and there is a also strong theoretical basis for pluralism and creative holism.

Assignment report structure – Strategic Management Accounting (SMA), 2014 Assignment Title 1.        Introduction 2.        Basic ideas about [the SMA technique] and how it is different from traditional management accounting theories and practices 3.        An evaluation of [the SMA technique] strengths and weaknesses 4.        An e evaluation of [the SMA technique]’s business value 5.        An evaluation of the role of Management Accountant in [the SMA technique]’s practices 6.        An evaluation of the contribution of [the SMA technique] to the field of contemporary strategic management accounting 7.        Concluding remarks References     ** note that targeting costing is covered in Chapter 12; EVA is covered in Chapter 19. The blog article is a suggested SMA assignment report structure; pls feel free to adapt it to suit your purpose. Make sure you adopt harvard referencing . Also see a sample article to illustrate writing style required. Another sampl

Recently, I have had difficulties to supervise 1 or 2 final year dissertation project students; one of them complained that he is busy and he is not supposed to do dissertation as a scholar, etc. I smell some cheating acts involved... Anyway, students are customers; and I am not paid to force students to learn. I give advices in dissertation meetings. Students can then decide what they are going to do next. At the end of the day, I do the first marking... and I need to make it clear: I do not even recognize (or give face to) my mother when I do the marking of dissertation reports . I will not consider factors such as you are busy or you are just a part-time student, etc... If students are not committed to doing dissertation projects, they should not ask me or let me supervise them..

The following strategic management concepts have been briefly introduced in tutorial 1 of the Strategic Management Accounting What is SMA ? What is sustainable competitive advantage ? On Value Chain model and the Five-force model of Porter On generic competitive strategy

Electronic Commerce Lesson Plan Session Content Tutorial 1 Chapter 1: Introduction to e-business and e-commerce 2 Chapter 2: Marketplace analysis for e-commerce Tutorial 1 Internet, Intranets & Extranets 3 Chapter 3: E-business infrastructure 4 Chapter 4: E-environment Tutorial 2 The Music Industry 5 Chapter 5: E-business strategy 6 Chapter 6: Supply chain management Tutorial 3 On-line Gambling 7 Chapter 7: E-procurement 8 Chapter 8: E-marketing Tutorial 4 Amazon.com & boo.com 9 Chapter 9: Customer relationship management 10 Chapter10: Change management Tutorial 5 The Jeweller 11 Chapter 11: Analysis and design 12 Chapter 12: Implementation and maintenance Assessment Criteria and Marking Guidelines

The following info is for the BU MBA ecommerce class from August 28 to 31, 2014 Textbook: Rana Tassabehji (2005) Applying e-commerce in business , Sage Publications, London. References The global IT report 2014 Info economy (oecd) The long tail Law of disruption Strategy + business What are network effects New rules for new economy Rise of crowdsourcing 9 examples of crowdsourcing How does bitcoin work ? Bad behavior of email users Data protection Guide to Internet law The dot-com survivors Another digital gold-rush Another tech bubble Business models on the web 2014 info security breaches survey How cyber-criminals attack websites Spear-phishing Office intruders bbc Managing enterprise security Playstations offline Social networking (pdf) Web gurus e-commerce intelligence (pdf) We are the web Amazon apologize on cloud fault 10 best intranets Topics: Introduction to e-commerce The technology Elements of e-commerce: applications Security and e-c