Case Analysis: Tennant Company | Lead-In/Key Issues Over Tennant Company’s (Tennant) 141 year history‚ they have consistently remained a producer of floor-cleaning equipment and technologies focusing their efforts in producing products for non-residential use. Since the new CEO Chris Killingstad has come to the company however‚ he has been dramatically changing Tennant’s value proposition with a broader emphasis encompassing “chemical-free cleaning and other technologies.” This case shows Tennant’s
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4357 OCTOBER 24‚ 2011 CHRISTOPHER A. BARTLETT ARAR HAN Levendary Café: The China Challenge Levendary Café was spun out from private equity ownership in January 2011‚ and the following month‚ Mia Foster was named as its new CEO. The departing CEO‚ Howard Leventhal‚ was the beloved founder of the popular chain of 3‚500 cafés. He had grown a small Denver soup‚ salad‚ and sandwich restaurant into a $10 billion business‚ but after 32 years was moving on to new interests. This was Foster’s first
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Technology & Policing Kristin E. Blue March 12‚ 2011 UMUC/Prof. Richard Bobys Technology and Policing The use of technology in the police department started as early as 1850’s when a multi shot pistol was for the first time made. Over the years‚ technology has evolved and different institutions have adjusted accordingly and embraced technology in their work. Technology is still being used widely to make work more efficient‚ produce effective results and the police have not
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Management of Technology in Marketing Perspective 1. Introduction Management of Technology (MOT) is defined as a field of Study that deals with the production of humane activities and social activities linked with innovation‚ creation and development of new technology. The evolving global business environment requires leaders capable of managing the latest advances in technology. Inventions‚ whether they come from industry‚ high-tech‚ or other sectors‚ must be nurtured and carefully guided to the
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Case 1 – Yorktown Technologies Problem Statement In November 2001‚ a startup company‚ Yorktown Technologies‚ was founded by two gentlemen‚ Alan Blake and Richard Crockett‚ with the objective to patent the idea of producing GloFish® genetically modified tropical zebra fish which would fluorescent all the time. Zebra danio fish are native to India. These fish are clear with stripes on them. The objective of these fluorescent fish is to identify water contamination. After further analysis‚
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Running Head: YORKTOWN TECHNOLOGIES CASE ANALYSIS Yorktown Technologies Case Analysis Case Recap Founded in 2001‚ Yorktown Technologies‚ Inc. is a company that specializes in the ornamental fish industry. The globalization of the ornamental fish industry happened over a half a century ago. Hundreds of freshwater and saltwater fish can be purchased as pets in virtually any industrialized nation in the world (Broy‚ 2011). Yorktown Technologies commercializes a genetically modified
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each other at any point in time. However is it a good thing to have all this power in a device that is so mobile? It gives so much access to one person’s life and is able to put it all out on the air waves. Cell phone usage and the usage of any technology for that matter are starting to become an addiction. A study done by the University of Maryland found that” Many young people reported mental and physical symptoms of distress and “employed the rhetoric of addiction‚ dependency and depression‚”
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Case analysis on Lucent Technologies: Global Supply Chain Management By‚ ROOPANVI DANDU Lucent Technologies: Global Supply Chain Management Lucent technologies are a manufacturing company that was a part of American Telephone and Telegraph Corporation (AT&T) until 1996. Lucent’s main product was the 5ESS switch. The switch was worlds most reliable and widely used switching system. Prior to 1996 the Asian supply chain has not been a high priority. The demand for Asian joint ventures
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WEARABLE TECHNOLOGY – A MARKETING PERSPECTIVE Smart-wear is undoubtedly the buzz word of 2014 in the world of technological innovation. In an increasingly trendy world‚ fashion and technology have seamlessly fused into a winning combination producing wearable devices that are ‘smart’‚ which compute and add immense aesthetical value. Welcome to the world of Wearable Technology! Gone are the ages when computable technology was restricted to desktops and remained ensconced in the realm of Science Fiction
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Information and communication technologies or ICTs[1] allow users to participate in a rapidly changing world in which work and other activities are increasingly transformed by access to varied and developing technologies. By this definition‚ you could almost say ICT is technology ’s version of economic growth‚ to satisfy the needs and wants of the community over time. ICT tools can be used to find‚ explore‚ analyze‚ exchange and present information responsibly and without discrimination. ICT can
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