INNOVATION -- IN DEPTH By Brian Hindo At 3M‚ A Struggle between Efficiency and Creativity How CEO George Buckley is managing the yin and yang of discipline and imagination Not too many years ago‚ the temple of management was General Electric (GE ). Former CEO Jack Welch was the high priest‚ and his disciples spread the word to executive suites throughout the land. One of his most highly regarded followers‚ James McNerney‚ was quickly snatched up by 3M after falling short in the closely watched
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Sean Braun Assignment 9 There are two main types of fibre optic transmitter that are in use today. Both of them are based around semiconductor technology: • Light emitting diodes (LEDs) • Laser diodes Semiconductor optical transmitters have many advantages. They are small‚ convenient‚ and reliable. However‚ the two different types of fibre optic transmitter have very different properties and they tend to be used in widely different applications. LED transmitters These fibre optic transmitters
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Electronic Voting Literature Review Computer scientists who have done work in‚ or are interested in‚ electronic voting all seem to agree on two things: Internet voting does not meet the requirements for public elections Currently widely-deployed voting systems need improvement Voting on the Internet using everyday PC’s offers only weak security‚ but its main disadvantages are in the areas of anonymity and protection against coercion and/or vote selling. It’s such a truly bad idea that there seems to be
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organized voting system. The history of voting could be traced back to the 17th century colonial days when shouting and the show of hands would be an indication of casting votes. This method often led to chaos‚ fraud‚ repeat votes or over voting of election candidates. To reduce such loopholes‚ it was soon replaced by paper ballots in the 1770’s then electronic voting in the 1890’s. The change in the voting system over time emphasized certain criteria that a “good” voting system must accomplish.
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talents‚ initiative and leadership * Earn the admiration of all those associated with 3M worldwide Business Strategy in 3M In order to motivate the employees and in order to increase the speed with which they were working‚ certain decisions had to be taken which were made strategic objectives and they had to be achieved by adhering to those rules. Thus business level decisions were taken. a) 15% rule – At 3M‚ innovation is a must. It is a compulsory strategy. There are certain scenarios where
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Case Instructions – Zeal Optical Michael and Wink Jackson are receiving advice from 3 different individuals/experts: Scott Jaeger‚ Laura Kornish‚ and Dave Maney. For this assignment: 1. Identify the problems that Zeal has. It is helpful if you list these problems in the first paragraph of your case write-up. 2. Think about it: If you were the Jacksons‚ what would you do to grow your business‚ i.e. what are your recommendations? Why? Be specific. You can use advice from one or more of the
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Introduction 8 2.0 History of Optical Fiber 9 3.0 Construction of Optical Fiber 12 4.0 Guiding Mechanism in Optical Fiber 13 5.0 Basic Components of OFC 15 5.1 Transmitter 15 5.2 Fiber 15 5.3 Receiver 15 5.4 Process 16 6.0 Principle of optical transmission 16 6.1 Refractive Index 16 6.2 Snell’s Law 17 6.3 Critical Angle 17 6.4 Total Internal Reflection 18 6.5 Acceptance Cone 19 6.6 Numerical Aperture 21 7.0 Advantage of optical fiber communication 23 7
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Disruptive and transformational technologies typically appeal to segments of the market that are undeserved‚ and not to the main stream of the market (Shane‚ 2009). These technologies have the ability to make traditional tools and processes obsolete virtually overnight. In this paper I use Netflix as an example of a disruptive technology and Toshiba– NEC’s HD-DVD as transformational technology. I begin with a discussion of disruptive technology. Afterwards‚ I will speak on the success of Netflix;
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The Optical Time Domain Reflectometer (OTDR) Introduction In fiber optic networks‚ OTDR (Optical Time Domain Reflectometer) is an opto-electronic instrument used to characterize an optical fiber. Unlike power meters OTDR does not measure loss‚ but instead implies it by looking at the backscatter signature of the fiber. Generally‚ OTDR are used to determine the loss of any part of a system‚ the length of the fiber and the distance between any points of interest. Most of the light which is
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Optical Properties of Quasicrystals: Negative Refraction Quasicrystals‚ or crystals that display the unusual property of non-periodicity (while remaining ordered)‚ were discovered in the 1980s by Dan Shechtman. A highly controversial topic‚ Shechtman did not produce a paper describing them for over two years after their discovery. However‚ within the past 30 years‚ the scientific community has come to accept them‚ reproduce them for study‚ and even award Dan Shechtman with a Nobel Prize for their
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