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There are a number of similarities that exist between Buddhist and Hindu temples, due to the fact that these two religions spread around southeast Asia at approximately the same time. Both of these types of religious temples are indicative of the cosmology of the adherents. Works such as the Chaitya Cave at Karli and the Kanishka stupa demonstrate as much.

¶ … World War II. World War II was a turning point in world history, and brought together many allies to fight strong opponents for world domination. The War was supposed to be the "last" world war fought, but other…

There are many things in the West which those in the East admire, especially when it comes to business tactics and strategies and education. For example, American businessmen and women have mastered the "art of the…

¶ … Shooting an Elephant" reveals the shift in public consciousness related to imperialism and colonialism. Whereas Kipling had revealed sympathy and an apologetic stance toward British colonialism in India, Orwell…

The traditional print version of newspapers worldwide has suffered serious setbacks in recent years, to the point that some industry experts are predicting the ultimate demise of print newspapers.

Verizon's continued growth in consumer and business-based subscriber levels can be attributed to the depth of customer insight and intelligence the company has operated with, in addition to their unique approach to selling services contracts. Cellular and telecommunication services providers must balance a transaction focus to sell more with a relationship focus to keep customers signing up year after year. Many businesses rely on Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems to manage this balance between transactions and relationship-based selling (Chen, Popvich, 2003). Verizon is a sales-driven company that has grown quickly through mergers, acquisitions and alliances, and as a result, a transaction mentality pervades the company. The combination of the mergers, acquisitions and alliances and the priority put on new business over renewals has made Verizon suffer at building and maintaining relationships with customers. The company has a disjointed, disconnected series of customer processes that need to be unified through a Cloud-based CRM system. Company Background Verizon (NYSE:VZ) is one of the leading providers of cellular and telecommunications services globally, operating in 150 countries with 92.2 million customers globally. During their latest full fiscal year (FY), the company reporting $110B in revenues, an increase of 4% of their previous full fiscal period. Verizon attained a $12.8B operating profit in their latest fiscal year, which was a decrease of 12.1%. Net Profit during these two time periods also decreased by 5.7% during these fiscal years as well, with the company reporting $2.4B in FY2011. As with many cellular and telecommunications services providers, Verizon has gone through several reorganizations, each being focused on making the company more efficient at driving top-line revenue growth. The strategy has worked to this point and today the company has two globally-based business divisions, Verizon Wireless and Wireline. Verizon generates the majority of their revenues from the consumer segment, the majority of profits from the business and government sectors. In these latter segments it is more difficult to displace a cellular or telecommunication provider once contracts and service agreements are in place. This strategy of lock-in in the business and government sectors have compensated for the exceptionally high churn with consumers and small businesses, a problem hat a CRM system could solve. Business Problems Verizon today operates in 150 nations has partnerships in place with Cellco and Vodafone globally at the service provider level of their business. Verizon also has hundreds of partnerships with local cell phone, cellular equipment and enterprise networking companies as well. The two dominant divisions, Verizon Wireless and Wireline, rely on a procurement and supply chain management system that has over time been customized to the unique requirements of the company. The procurement and supply chain management systems are disconnected form the over two dozen CRM systems in the company as of 2012, which makes it nearly impossible for sales representatives, managers and senior managers to see what equipment they have available for sale. Instead, Verizon has integrated their procurement and supply chain management systems to their catalog management systems first. This is ideally used in a more inventory-based approach to selling which does not take into account customer needs first. Instead, Verizon sales reps are told to sell the products and services that are the most profitable without regard to customer needs. While this approach has been exceptionally successful in driving top-line revenue growth it has not yielded a high level of customer satisfaction. One of the most critical success factors of a CRM system is designing its many attributes to reflect what customers expect to be a successful interaction and relationship (Hsin, 2007). Verizon has today created the integration of their procurement, supply chain and catalog management systems to their many CRM systems for transaction efficiency first. Designing a CRM system for customer satisfaction first and transactions second or even third is critical to meeting and exceeding customer expectations on a consistent basis (Adalikwu, 2012).

Nationalism and Anthony Smith's anti-primordialism in his view of modern Asiatic history and the construction of what is 'Asia'

Tensions between Israel and Palestinians have been of great concern to the rest of the world ever since they began, in 1947. In that year, Great Britain, who governed the area as a protectorate and with the approval of…

Homo Erectus was a species of mammal that was, in form and function, a modern foreshadower of today's human being. Homo Erectus lived from about 1,900,000 years to about 400,000 years ago.

Dolly, the world's first cloned sheep, took the world by storm. Since her birth in 1997, the potential benefits and potential pitfalls have been debated by scientists, doctors, and bioethicists, with few clear…