QCA Summary

• The company has the opportunity to grow in various markets and aquire new customers such as malls, hotels, offices, and motels not only in Canada but as well as the United States.

We interview the site general manager for a company called Bombardier Transportation. His name is Jeff Gaffney. His official company title is MARC Operations General Manager. Bombardier Transportation is one of two subsidiaries of the company. The other half is Bombardier Aerospace. The parent company is called Bombardier Inc. Bombardier Inc. is headquartered in Montreal Canada. Jeff Gaffney is only involved in the transportation division of the company which is headquartered in Berlin Germany. Bombardier is the leading manufacturer of trains and the third leading manufacturer of planes. The company as a whole has roughly about 72,000 employees with a revenue averaging around $16.8 billion. These numbers are statistics split between the two divisions of the company. As stated before Mr. Gaffney is involved in the transportation division of the company so that is what the interview was primarily about.

We serve customers in an extensive range of industries. Our customers include national retail chains, family owned retail stores, subdivisions, office parks, churches, municipalities, shopping centers, HOAs, schools, industrial facilities, apartment complexes, restaurants and condominiums.

Nelson, Batalden, and Godfrey (2007) describe the PDSA (plan, do, study, and act) cycle as a systematic approach to examining change and/or quality improvement methods for effectiveness. In the plan portion of the cycle, the preparation steps and the objective of the improvement project are described. The “plan” also identifies the roles and responsibilities of members of the project team, the setting, and estimated amount of time to complete the task/project and other project details. The “do” portion is experimental part of the cycle including the collection of data. The “study” portion is when the collected data is analyzed, summarized, discussed and evaluated. The “act” portion is the final step which is examines whether to initiate, modify, or eliminate the intervention based on whether the results are favorable or not. The following is a visual summary of the PDSA cycle as it pertains to my project. In my Week 2 discussion I described

As most people would agree, no one would want to be underestimated. In the story, “The girl who was born with only two arms and two legs,” by Stuart Baum, Quarta, is an underestimated character, because of how she looks. She is underestimated because she is treated differently,because she gets doubted and because she overcomes obstacles in life.

This company has worked hard to create a positive image and it will more than likely be around to meet the needs of Fort Bliss, SBA and GSA business contracts.

Employed as a Compliance and Regulatory Affairs Officer at AndersonBrecon I am responsible for actively pursuing the streamlined introduction of new products within project timelines, setting up and maintaining Regulatory files, Preparation of annual Product Quality Reviews and general administrative duties.

Prior to and since the 1977 conference several institutions established their own committees and centers to improve women's status in the arts and humanities. Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, established the Center for Women in the Arts and Humanities (CWAH) through its Institute for Women's Leadership in 2006. The mission of the CWAH is to recognize, advance, and document the intellectual, aesthetic, and cultural contributions of diverse communities of women in the arts and humanities. To accomplish this goal, CWAH engages in university and community partnerships to present exhibitions, classes, public programs, sponsored research, projects encompassing the intersection of gender studies with the arts and humanities, and the creative

This helped US Sprint to win a major contract, handling 40 percent of the federal government’s long-distance business through a system called FTS2000. FTS2000 ensured that the government could maintain long distance communications in the even either company suffered a network failure (Marcial, 2001). The government became US Sprint largest customer. Consisting of companies such as Grumman, Calving Klein, Elizabeth Arden, Cheseborough-Pond’s, and National Starch were just a few of the major US Sprint accounts (Marcial, 2001).

As an employee, you are an integral part of our company and your contribution cannot be overstated. Our goal is to provide timely, efficient, and effective service for our clients. In delivering what our clients want and need, we can generate greater customer satisfaction and create opportunities for continued business.

Serving these companies solidified Kings Consulting Firm as one of the best due to the success of the companies in recent years. Our slogan is “Your Company, Our Passion” and we definitely live up to that. When we give companies ' opinions we act as if we are the friend of the family, meaning we give an outside solution to your problem. We aren’t going to sway you to a certain answer, we generally just want to give you ways to deal with a problem from the outside looking in.

We recognise that your organisation occupies a visible position in the telecommunications industry as a leading major contractor and supplier of telecommunications infrastructure and as such we at Intercontra Initiatives would like to make our professional services and logistics solutions available to you.

Our team of Burkenroad analysts, Mark Beck-Doss, Spencer Kirsch, Ethan Kline, Brian Robinowitz and investment research manager Nikunj Bajaj, traveled to a restaurant in downtown New Orleans, Louisiana on September 30, 2014 to meet with two members of Newpark Resources, Inc. management. At the restaurant, we met with Gregg Piontek, VP and CFO of Newpark, and Brian Feldott, Treasurer & Director of Corporate Finance. We commenced our two-hour meeting at 7:30 a.m.

Describe the company and the major initiative(s) they have planned for the next 5 years.

Currently, the Group is working not only to develop new strategic offerings and improve service quality, but to also adapt to the needs of customers that have grown in sophistication on an ongoing basis. Yamato Group will strive to attain further growth in TA-Q-BIN through the generation of new business and solution models in areas of the business in which growth can be expected. As a result of these efforts, the Yamato Group has outperformed the growth in the express home delivery market as a whole, and steadily expanded their market