Part one: Written exercise. In your own words‚ define ‘making and remaking’ and provide two examples that can be seen on City Road. ’Making and remaking’ are defined as concepts used in Sociology to describe how a society functions in its present manifestation and changes continually over time. Making refers to how members of a society operate in their daily activities. Remaking points to how society is transposed over the ages as people migrate into the area and others away altering the usage
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Bolter and Grusin (1999) define the concept of remediation as the borrowing and refashioning of existing media forms. Where the newly refashioned media form will allow for the identification of faults of the old media forms‚ as a main feature‚ demonstrating the absence of immediacy within the medium. Which brings us to Bolter and Grusin (1999) concept of immediacy which tries to use the representation of objects within the medium to make the audience feel as if the medium does not exist. An example
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About the case: This case basically talks about how CIGNA group introduced business reengineering into its organization five year ago and saved more than 100 million dollar. This business reengineering journey started by small pilot project and it was big hit. Then organization ramped up from this success‚ exchange their ideas‚ experiences and learning from this project into larger and more complex parts of the organization. Later on‚ all the nine division challenged to the match of CIGNA RE.
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their business practices and become more customer-focused. All recent business approaches and techniques have generally aimed at improving performance‚ increasing profits‚ gaining market share‚ and most importantly satisfying the customer who has become more educated and more demanding than ever. In the last two decades two organizational development models have dominated the business world for a considerable period of time namely Total Quality Management (TQM) and Core Process Reengineering (CPR)
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Running Head Reengineering the Corporation Reengineering the Corporation In the book “Reengineering the Corporation”‚ Hammer and Champy create a new frame of managerial relations and organizational bureaucracy. The authors address such important problems as impact of technology on business environment‚ new labor relations and organizational structures affected a modern corporation. The book consists of 13 chapters and an Epilogue discussing different problems and issue of modern organizational
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Apple Consultancy Report Word Count 2‚349 Introduction Apple Inc has been hailed as one of the most emerging company of the past decade. This company has progressed from a struggling computer company in 90’s to one of the major leaders of the computer industry. There are many factors that have led to the success of this firm. One of them is setting up a strong e-business strategy. E-commerce has been pivotal in Apple operation. This is because of the reason that the company relies on the
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Apple’s Business Models Analysis and Suggestion with Web 2.0 Strategy Student Name: Sun Shaoyun HKU No.2013951569 Contents 1. Introduction ....................................................................................................................................... 2 2. Apple’s Business Model .................................................................................................................... 3 2.1. Elements of successful business model ...........
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STRATEGIC AUDIT WORKSHEET FOR APPLE INC. Prepared by: MGMT 4480 FALL 2009 I. CURRENT SITUATION A. Current Performance: Apple announced financial results for its fiscal 2009 fourth quarter ended September 26‚ 2009. The Company posted revenue of $9.87 billion and a net quarterly profit of $1.67 billion. These results compare to revenue of $7.9 billion and net quarterly profit of $1.14 billion‚ in the year-ago quarter. Gross margin was 36.6 percent‚ up from 34.7 percent in the year-ago
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Apple Incorporated Recruitment Process Company Profile: Apple Inc. is an American multinational corporation that designs and manufactures consumer electronics and computer software products. The widely known hardware products include Macintosh computers‚ the iPod‚ and the iPhone. Apple software includes the Mac OS X operating system‚ the iTunes media browser‚ the iLife suite of multimedia and creativity software‚ the iWork suite of productivity software‚ Final Cut Studio‚ a suite of professional
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Internal Factor Evaluation (IFE) Matrix for Apple Strengths | Weight | Rating | Wt.Score | 1. Customer loyalty combined with expanding closed system 2. As a leading innovator in mobile device technology 3. Strong financial performance 4. Powerful Brand reputation 5. Retail stores 6. Strong marketing and advertising teams | 0.120.100.090.110.090.10 | 443434 | 0.480.400.270.440.270.40 | Weakness | | | | 1. High Price 2. Incompatibility with different OS 3. Patent infringements
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