Market discipline versus comprehensive education: a case study of a London comprehensive school struggling to survive in the education market place

2013 ◽  
pp. 299-321
Keyword(s):  
Comprehensive School ◽  
Market Discipline ◽  
Market Place ◽  
Comprehensive Education ◽  
Education Market

scholarly journals Mapping Psychological & Sociological Influences on Individual Decision Making and Brand Choices

2015 ◽  
Vol 52 ◽  
pp. 104-110
Author(s):  
Ray Titus ◽  
Bhavika Veeramachaneni
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Individual Case ◽  
Single Individual ◽  
Market Place ◽  
Personality Tests ◽  
Mba Program ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Consumption Decision ◽  
Depth Interviews

Understanding and responding to the quintessential customer is the only way marketers will survive high density competition in the market place. Giving the consumer what he needs, when he needs it and where he needs it is the key to smart marketing. Providing consumer solutions in turn require marketers to know their target consumers’ psyche and the sociological influences that bear down on them. This research study uses multiple qualitative tools like personality tests, perception tests, in depth interviews and projective techniques to understand the psyche, social cultural environment and the decision making framework of an individual research subject. The subject chosen for the single individual case study was a student at an MBA program in the metropolitan city of Bangalore. He is in his mid-20s looking to move on to a corporate job after the completion of graduate business program. The research primarily focussed on understanding the influences his social circumstances and his personal psyche had on consumption decision making.

Enterprise Modelling in Support of Organisation Design and Change

2010 ◽  
pp. 352-378
Author(s):  
Joseph Ajaefobi ◽  
Aysin Rahimifard ◽  
Richard Weston
Keyword(s):  
Simulation Modelling ◽  
Integrated Modelling ◽  
Market Place ◽  
Manufacturing Enterprises ◽  
Enterprise Modelling ◽  
Requirements Change ◽  
Study Application ◽  
Modelling Approach

Enterprises (business organisations) are increasingly operating under uncertain conditions arising from: governments that introduce new regulations; a market place which is shaped by ongoing change in customer requirements; change in capital markets that orient overall market directions; an advancing base of technology; and increasing competition which can arise from a growing number of sources (Monfared, 2000). Consequently, organisations are expected to change rapidly in response to emerging requirements. Classical theories and more recently ‘method-based’ organisation (re)design and change approaches have been proposed and tried with varying degrees of successes. This chapter contribution discusses the role of enterprise and simulation modelling in support of organisation (re)design and change. The capabilities and constraints of some widely acknowledged public domain enterprise modelling frameworks and methods are reviewed. A modelling approach which integrates the use of enterprise modelling (EM), causal loop modelling (CLM), and simulation modelling (SM) is described. The approach enables the generation of coherent and semantically rich models of organisations. The integrated modelling approach has been applied and tested in a number of manufacturing enterprises (MEs) and one case study application is described.

E-Learning Business Models

2011 ◽  
pp. 70-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sabine Seufert
Keyword(s):  
Business Models ◽  
Digital Economy ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Learning Models ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Education Market ◽  
E Learning ◽  
International Data ◽  
Web Based Education

According to several forecasts given by Gartner Group or International Data Corporation, for example, e-learning as a new buzzword for Web-based education and its commercialization seems to be a growing market in the digital economy. This case study will analyze this new and dynamic e-learning market and the corresponding changes on the education market. A framework of the different education models that have already developed on the e-learning market will be introduced and their benefits and risks discussed. Several cases demonstrate the new e-learning models in action. Therefore, this contribution consists of several smaller cases that can be used for getting an overview of the e-learning market and for a discussion about e-learning as a promising e-commerce application on the Internet.

Teaching of Mandarin in an English Comprehensive School: A case study

2001 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 109-127 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louise T. Higgins ◽  
Kerry Sheldon
Keyword(s):  
Comprehensive School

scholarly journals Value Stream Mapping of Rope Manufacturing: A Case Study

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Korakot Yuvamitra ◽  
Jim Lee ◽  
Kanjicai Dong
Keyword(s):  
Process Improvement ◽  
Manufacturing Process ◽  
Continuous Process ◽  
Successful Outcome ◽  
Value Stream Mapping ◽  
Manufacturing Companies ◽  
Market Place ◽  
Continuous Process Improvement ◽  
Value Stream

In today’s competitive market place, manufacturing companies must apply continuous process improvement in order to maintain a returning customer base. One way of achieving constant process improvement is through value stream mapping. Value stream mapping is used to visualize the current processes for easier understanding and problem identification. A well-defined problem statement will ensure a successful outcome of a project improvement process. This research provides a case study performed on a rope manufacturing process. A current state value stream map is created, and the possible improvements are suggested. The implemented results are shown in the form of future state map. The results show that, after waste elimination and structural revision, a manufacturing process becomes more efficient, enabling the customer to receive an order significantly faster.

scholarly journals Discursive narratives of comprehensive education politics in Finland

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (5) ◽  
pp. 714-732 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sonja Kosunen ◽  
Petteri Hansen
Keyword(s):  
Basic Education ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
Comprehensive School ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Education Politics ◽  
Comprehensive Education ◽  
Period 2 ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
School Period ◽  
International Success

In recent years Finnish comprehensive education has often been discussed in both, academic and public forums, in terms of its relatively high learning outcomes and perceived efficiency. Yet what has often been lacking in cross-country comparisons is a critical socio-historical analysis of contingent nation-specific events and features as well as an in-depth analysis of Finnish education politics as constantly changing dynamic system. We analyze and reconstruct the discursive narrative of Finnish comprehensive education within a socio-historical framework. The material consists of interviews with the establishment of Finnish education: politicians, leading policy-makers and stakeholders, and established scholars (n=9). Three periods were recognized and reconstructed in the analysis: 1) The pre-comprehensive school period, 2) a steady development culminating in the crisis of the 1990s, and 3) the PISA results, which in the narrative led to international success and national gridlock. The crucial changes relate to changes in audiences (performing game). Two key findings emerge from this discursive narrative analyses: the role of the PISA reports as a turning point for the basic education politics in Finland and how this turn led to a discussion of comprehensive school as a kind of success story.

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