This document discusses how to curb unnecessary consumerism through changing social norms and government policy. It argues that current consumerism is driven by displaying wealth outwardly rather than inner traits, leading to unhappiness. It suggests alternatives to reduce spending like borrowing, renting or making items. Government can help by shifting taxes from income to consumption, encouraging savings over spending and promoting sustainability. The key is changing informal social norms around consumption through education.
Consumer Behaviour Part1: The Consumer in ContextSebastiano Mereu
Preparation for the Consumer Behaviour exam at Edinburgh Business School. Content extracted from the ‘Consumer Behaviour’ text book by David A. Statt. All pictures used for educational purposes only. No copyright infringement intended.
Aspiration, confidence, fear of failure and trust play a role in the B2B buying mindset. It sounds obvious, but avoidance of risk is a key component of business continuity and it’s easy to forget that B2B buyers are human beings, rather than rational decision-making robots. Brands need to invest time in understanding how their audience makes decisions if they are to influence them
Consumer Behaviour Part1: The Consumer in ContextSebastiano Mereu
Preparation for the Consumer Behaviour exam at Edinburgh Business School. Content extracted from the ‘Consumer Behaviour’ text book by David A. Statt. All pictures used for educational purposes only. No copyright infringement intended.
Aspiration, confidence, fear of failure and trust play a role in the B2B buying mindset. It sounds obvious, but avoidance of risk is a key component of business continuity and it’s easy to forget that B2B buyers are human beings, rather than rational decision-making robots. Brands need to invest time in understanding how their audience makes decisions if they are to influence them
The present work aims at debating and discussing an analysis about the current concept of “Product” to “Intelligent Product ” (IP), capable of satisfying the evolutionary desires of customers and, at the same time, of achieving a sustainable business model for companies in a framework of ongoing value creation.
It is about concept and reference, aiming at fostering brainstorming to contribute to better decision making.
This IP (object, not subject) is a value proposition which represents a commitment to providing a set of attributes to the expectations of someone (subject, not object) who, in turn, will be willing to exchange something for it.
IP is an experience whose best attribute is its ability to remain in time. However, for this to happen, products will have to be conceived out from people’s everyday life, not from abstract theories. Therefore, we must learn how to read into people’s everyday lives. We must build up the satisfier from costumers´ experience, from their surrounding world. We must think from an interdependent point of view -where there are factors related to customers’ feelings, idiosyncrasy, relationships and communities-, stepping aside, at least for a moment, from abstract theories.
“With abstract theories we tend to get borders so close to us that if we took them seriously, it wouldn’t be worth living in this world”
We must explore new universes which are much closer than we think. We must only go for them, and expand our narrow vision, which keeps us from “watching”. Expand this shortness which keeps us from understanding, and, consequently, prevents us from taking action, getting control. We are limited at understanding, surveying, exploring, assessing; we work and make decisions based on abstract models which can only be conveyed on a piece of paper; we must learn how to train and believe in our own critical and creative thinking. Only that will enable us to take in information and turn it into knowledge, and be innovative enough to consequently deliver a satisfier other than a cheap imitation.
COVID-19 // The Meaningful Shift // LATAM POVHavas
We are currently facing unprecedented times, in which the daily lives of individuals, companies, and communities are being totally disrupted. This has made us reflect on the way in which people react to these types of events. Regardless of the nature of a crisis - political, social, climatic and natural phenomena or health issues - human beings instinctively shift our behaviors and prioritize our personal and our family’s safety, heightening the search for information that allows us to feel more in control and confident of what we are experiencing.
Understanding the role that a brand can play in people's lives can be very useful in these times, especially if we can pinpoint how a brand can add value; be it from a functional standpoint through its product or service, or by leveraging what’s personally important to people (facilitating life, make people feel calm with their decisions …), or through a brand’s role within the collective well being of a community.
At HAVAS, brands that define their strategy through the value they create are called “meaningful brands”. This is our point of view on how brands in Latin America have the power to shift their strategies in times of crisis and gain relevance within our society when we need them most.
Corporate Social ResponsibilityDoing Good while Doin.docxbobbywlane695641
Corporate Social Responsibility
Doing Good while Doing Well
What is Ethics?
Ethics (also called moral philosophy) is a system of beliefs about how to behave.
Ethics vs. morals
Ethics denotes the theory of right action and the greater good
Morals indicate their practice
Moral—one complies with society’s system of beliefs
Amoral—one does not, acting in a fashion that is neither good or bad
Immoral—one does not, acting in contravention of proper behavior
General Social Expectations of Ethics
Societies dictate general systems of ethics through their culture, and their stated convictions about bad, good, and exceptional action.
The ethics of societies is quite stable, but does evolve over time
General social expectations affect all members of society.
Honesty
Fairness
Legality
Higher level: acting with consistency, coherence, and reciprocity
Highest level: acting with courage and sacrifice
Specific Social Expectations of Ethics
Specific expectations do vary by social role (industry, profession, social function, etc.)
Example: judges versus CIA spies
Example: soldiers versus nurses
So what are the social expectations of business ethics…?
Business Ethics
At individual level
One is progressively more ethical to the degree that one
Works hard in a competitive environment to provide products and services, and make an income
Complies with the laws of the land and obeys appropriate organizational rules
Seeks to meet professional norms (i.e. providing quality goods and services)
Seeks to meet social norms (i.e. exercising honesty and fairness) and strives to achieve the highest standards of integrity (i.e. preventing harm and donating back to society part of the proceeds of one’s success)
Corporate Social Responsibility
At the organizational level
A corporation is progressively more socially responsible to the degree that it
Meets basic economic needs through diligence and innovation
Exceeds legal requirements by fulfilling the spirit of the law
Finds ways to enhance the community and planet with mutually beneficial actions
Provides outright acts of charity
Carroll’s Progressive Levels of CSREconomic ResponsibilityLegal ResponsibilityEthical ResponsibilityDiscretionary Responsibility(must do)(have to do)(should do)(good to do)Corporate ResponsibilitySocial ResponsibilityProfit making and provide quality goods and services that are valued by consumersLaw-abiding behaviorThose that may not be required by law, but are socially accepted norms of honesty, decency, and fair-playInclude voluntary efforts to be environmentally friendly, enhance human rights, be an employer of choice, provide philanthropy and so on
Arguments for an Ethical Business Culture
Even minimalists assert the importance of economic and legal responsibilities
Economic viability is a pragmatic reality and a responsibility of owners, employees, creditors, etc.
Breaking laws puts a com.
Sheet1TVM Question1)You made an investment with the following expe.docxmaoanderton
Sheet1TVM Question1)You made an investment with the following expected cash flow streamYear 0Year 1Year 2Year 3Year 4Year 5Year 6Investment $ (100,000)Current return - 16,000 20,000 3,435 3,434 7,800 4,785Accrued amount $ (100,000) $ 16,000 $ 20,000 $ 3,435 $ 3,434 $ 7,800 4785 + X Total Cash flow-1000001600020000343534347800174900a) What does X have to be for you to earn a 18% (Nominal Annual) monthly compounding return2)You just won the lottery and are given the following two choices to collect your earnings. SCHEDULE OUT YOUR PAYMENTS IN YOUR WORKSHEET.1) $7,500,000 lump sum payment up front2) $575,000 payable per year at the start of the year for 35 years.a) what is the implied rate of return on taking the extended payout?
CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY 1
CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY 2
Intellectual Property
COLLAPSE
Top of Form
The fight over intellectual property isn’t a new idea or concept that’s mutually exclusive to Samsung and Apple. It has actually been going on for many years. Ever since the days of the first automobile or airplane creators have been trying to protect what they feel is their intellectual property. Lucky for the consumer the first inventors of the airplane weren’t going to be the only individuals able to produce it. Similarly, the first creator of the mobile phone isn’t going to be the only person able to make a phone. Once an idea is first sparked and it catches fire; like the automobile, airplane, or cell phones. Companies are able to take an idea and improve on it. It’s hard not to blame the creator of the “thing.” They feel as though they have exclusive rights to this ground breaking invention. They had the vision and the foresight to see a need and exploit it. However, just like the first automobile of yesterday isn’t made the same as today, cell phones have rapidly changed in their functionality.
The debate between Samsung and Apple is about whether or not Samsung stole Apple’s ideas. To what extent does Apple’s patent on their phone extend? They clearly came up with the modern day cell phone layout, which has been to some extent copied by Samsung. Although Samsung used Apples model, it’s not completely the same. It’s easy to see why Apple creators are upset that their model has been used to sell phones for another company, but it’s so hard to fight it in court. Samsung can point out numerous ways in which theirs is different, but there’s no doubt they were inspired by Apples design. Intellectual property needs to be protected. However, it is extremely difficult to protect. Patents are able to be protected when they are very specific in nature. Apples patent is specific, but also able to be tweaked and changed. Sure Samsung can’t create the Iphone because its illegal, but they can create on that’s similar. Apples grea.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
The present work aims at debating and discussing an analysis about the current concept of “Product” to “Intelligent Product ” (IP), capable of satisfying the evolutionary desires of customers and, at the same time, of achieving a sustainable business model for companies in a framework of ongoing value creation.
It is about concept and reference, aiming at fostering brainstorming to contribute to better decision making.
This IP (object, not subject) is a value proposition which represents a commitment to providing a set of attributes to the expectations of someone (subject, not object) who, in turn, will be willing to exchange something for it.
IP is an experience whose best attribute is its ability to remain in time. However, for this to happen, products will have to be conceived out from people’s everyday life, not from abstract theories. Therefore, we must learn how to read into people’s everyday lives. We must build up the satisfier from costumers´ experience, from their surrounding world. We must think from an interdependent point of view -where there are factors related to customers’ feelings, idiosyncrasy, relationships and communities-, stepping aside, at least for a moment, from abstract theories.
“With abstract theories we tend to get borders so close to us that if we took them seriously, it wouldn’t be worth living in this world”
We must explore new universes which are much closer than we think. We must only go for them, and expand our narrow vision, which keeps us from “watching”. Expand this shortness which keeps us from understanding, and, consequently, prevents us from taking action, getting control. We are limited at understanding, surveying, exploring, assessing; we work and make decisions based on abstract models which can only be conveyed on a piece of paper; we must learn how to train and believe in our own critical and creative thinking. Only that will enable us to take in information and turn it into knowledge, and be innovative enough to consequently deliver a satisfier other than a cheap imitation.
COVID-19 // The Meaningful Shift // LATAM POVHavas
We are currently facing unprecedented times, in which the daily lives of individuals, companies, and communities are being totally disrupted. This has made us reflect on the way in which people react to these types of events. Regardless of the nature of a crisis - political, social, climatic and natural phenomena or health issues - human beings instinctively shift our behaviors and prioritize our personal and our family’s safety, heightening the search for information that allows us to feel more in control and confident of what we are experiencing.
Understanding the role that a brand can play in people's lives can be very useful in these times, especially if we can pinpoint how a brand can add value; be it from a functional standpoint through its product or service, or by leveraging what’s personally important to people (facilitating life, make people feel calm with their decisions …), or through a brand’s role within the collective well being of a community.
At HAVAS, brands that define their strategy through the value they create are called “meaningful brands”. This is our point of view on how brands in Latin America have the power to shift their strategies in times of crisis and gain relevance within our society when we need them most.
Corporate Social ResponsibilityDoing Good while Doin.docxbobbywlane695641
Corporate Social Responsibility
Doing Good while Doing Well
What is Ethics?
Ethics (also called moral philosophy) is a system of beliefs about how to behave.
Ethics vs. morals
Ethics denotes the theory of right action and the greater good
Morals indicate their practice
Moral—one complies with society’s system of beliefs
Amoral—one does not, acting in a fashion that is neither good or bad
Immoral—one does not, acting in contravention of proper behavior
General Social Expectations of Ethics
Societies dictate general systems of ethics through their culture, and their stated convictions about bad, good, and exceptional action.
The ethics of societies is quite stable, but does evolve over time
General social expectations affect all members of society.
Honesty
Fairness
Legality
Higher level: acting with consistency, coherence, and reciprocity
Highest level: acting with courage and sacrifice
Specific Social Expectations of Ethics
Specific expectations do vary by social role (industry, profession, social function, etc.)
Example: judges versus CIA spies
Example: soldiers versus nurses
So what are the social expectations of business ethics…?
Business Ethics
At individual level
One is progressively more ethical to the degree that one
Works hard in a competitive environment to provide products and services, and make an income
Complies with the laws of the land and obeys appropriate organizational rules
Seeks to meet professional norms (i.e. providing quality goods and services)
Seeks to meet social norms (i.e. exercising honesty and fairness) and strives to achieve the highest standards of integrity (i.e. preventing harm and donating back to society part of the proceeds of one’s success)
Corporate Social Responsibility
At the organizational level
A corporation is progressively more socially responsible to the degree that it
Meets basic economic needs through diligence and innovation
Exceeds legal requirements by fulfilling the spirit of the law
Finds ways to enhance the community and planet with mutually beneficial actions
Provides outright acts of charity
Carroll’s Progressive Levels of CSREconomic ResponsibilityLegal ResponsibilityEthical ResponsibilityDiscretionary Responsibility(must do)(have to do)(should do)(good to do)Corporate ResponsibilitySocial ResponsibilityProfit making and provide quality goods and services that are valued by consumersLaw-abiding behaviorThose that may not be required by law, but are socially accepted norms of honesty, decency, and fair-playInclude voluntary efforts to be environmentally friendly, enhance human rights, be an employer of choice, provide philanthropy and so on
Arguments for an Ethical Business Culture
Even minimalists assert the importance of economic and legal responsibilities
Economic viability is a pragmatic reality and a responsibility of owners, employees, creditors, etc.
Breaking laws puts a com.
Sheet1TVM Question1)You made an investment with the following expe.docxmaoanderton
Sheet1TVM Question1)You made an investment with the following expected cash flow streamYear 0Year 1Year 2Year 3Year 4Year 5Year 6Investment $ (100,000)Current return - 16,000 20,000 3,435 3,434 7,800 4,785Accrued amount $ (100,000) $ 16,000 $ 20,000 $ 3,435 $ 3,434 $ 7,800 4785 + X Total Cash flow-1000001600020000343534347800174900a) What does X have to be for you to earn a 18% (Nominal Annual) monthly compounding return2)You just won the lottery and are given the following two choices to collect your earnings. SCHEDULE OUT YOUR PAYMENTS IN YOUR WORKSHEET.1) $7,500,000 lump sum payment up front2) $575,000 payable per year at the start of the year for 35 years.a) what is the implied rate of return on taking the extended payout?
CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY 1
CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY 2
Intellectual Property
COLLAPSE
Top of Form
The fight over intellectual property isn’t a new idea or concept that’s mutually exclusive to Samsung and Apple. It has actually been going on for many years. Ever since the days of the first automobile or airplane creators have been trying to protect what they feel is their intellectual property. Lucky for the consumer the first inventors of the airplane weren’t going to be the only individuals able to produce it. Similarly, the first creator of the mobile phone isn’t going to be the only person able to make a phone. Once an idea is first sparked and it catches fire; like the automobile, airplane, or cell phones. Companies are able to take an idea and improve on it. It’s hard not to blame the creator of the “thing.” They feel as though they have exclusive rights to this ground breaking invention. They had the vision and the foresight to see a need and exploit it. However, just like the first automobile of yesterday isn’t made the same as today, cell phones have rapidly changed in their functionality.
The debate between Samsung and Apple is about whether or not Samsung stole Apple’s ideas. To what extent does Apple’s patent on their phone extend? They clearly came up with the modern day cell phone layout, which has been to some extent copied by Samsung. Although Samsung used Apples model, it’s not completely the same. It’s easy to see why Apple creators are upset that their model has been used to sell phones for another company, but it’s so hard to fight it in court. Samsung can point out numerous ways in which theirs is different, but there’s no doubt they were inspired by Apples design. Intellectual property needs to be protected. However, it is extremely difficult to protect. Patents are able to be protected when they are very specific in nature. Apples patent is specific, but also able to be tweaked and changed. Sure Samsung can’t create the Iphone because its illegal, but they can create on that’s similar. Apples grea.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
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Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
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Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
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https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
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2. How To Curb Unnecessary Consumerism The Question is : How Can We Live Happily Still showing off our personal traits, while avoiding unnecessary consumption. Remember: Runaway consumerism leaves us feeling superficial and empty, because we project ourselves outward to observers too promiscuously and desperately.
3. How To Curb Unnecessary Consumerism First lets recap our current situation: -In most developed societies our standard self display strategy is to seek highest paying full time employment permitted by ones intelligence and personality and use resulting income to buy branded goods and services at full retail price.
4. How To Curb Unnecessary Consumerism This state of society results in “a polarization of roles- at work we embrace division of labor, specialize, and work hard; while at home we portray emotional warmth, openness, spontaneity, and virtue” Commuting thus = transition zone between a false persona and its opposite.
5. How To Curb Unnecessary Consumerism So lets reframe this mindset into something more productive & accurate. “It is very inefficient to buy new, branded, mass produced products from stores at full manufacturers suggested retail price” (inefficient here suggesting a suboptimal path towards displaying attractive genetic qualities/traits) Why? Because nothing about the purchase says anything about ones traits besides our purchasing power.
6. How To Curb Unnecessary Consumerism So here’s the advice (instead of buying something outright): Think for a few days whether you really need any product/service at all. Find the one you already own Borrow product from a friend, relative, neighbor Rent it (The sense of ownership is a cognitive illusion…founded on the denial of habituation, consumer fashion cycles, technical progress, and our own mortality)
7. How To Curb Unnecessary Consumerism So here’s the advice continued 5. Buy It in Generic, Replica, or Trickle Down Form 6. Make it Yourself 7. Commission It From A Local Artisan 8. Wait 3 Years Before Buying New Technologies 9. Ask to get it as a gift 10. Acknowledge the display premium built into most retail products.
8. How To Curb Unnecessary Consumerism “People indoctrinated in hedonistic individualism, religious fundamentalism, or patriarchal nationalism, that is 99 percent of humanity are not accustomed to thinking imaginatively about how to change society through changing its behavioral norms and institutional habits.”
9. How To Curb Unnecessary Consumerism The Key to changing consumerism socially is to work at changing “informal social norms” Why? Because research in game theory and experimental economics has show that informal social norms can powerfully influence human behavior and sustain human cooperation.
10. How The Government Can Legalize Freedom From Unnecessary Consumerism Biggest problem with most current governments is that they prioritize economic growth over citizens happiness, quality of life, efficiency of trait display, and breadth and depth of social networks.
11. How The Government Can Legalize Freedom From Unnecessary Consumerism If you want to understand how political power biases trait display systems of our society, you have to track the money on which politics depends (Thus) Taxation Campaign Finance
12. How The Government Can Legalize Freedom From Unnecessary Consumerism Tax Policy is where much of society and the economy gets shaped. If citizens don’t understand taxes, they don’t understand how, when, and where their government expropriates money, time, and freedom from their lives. *This also explains a bias for consumption over savings.
13. How The Government Can Legalize Freedom From Unnecessary Consumerism So what can the government do? ---Shift from income taxes to consumption taxes Why? Because consumption taxes encourage less consuming, more earning, saving, investing, and charitable giving. (Thus promoting longer term retirement security, family wealth, social welfare, technical progress, and economic growth)
14. How The Government Can Legalize Freedom From Unnecessary Consumerism Income taxes penalize people for what they contribute to society (labor and capital) Consumption taxes penalize people for what they take out of society (new retail purchases)
15. How The Government Can Legalize Freedom From Unnecessary Consumerism What Can A Consumption Tax Accomplish People reduce, reuse, and recycle more. Incentivize people to buy longer lasting goods with higher resale value. Encourage people to buy products that consume less energy and matter to operate Promote social capital and neighborly camaraderie Increase savings, Investments, and charity
