Case Study: British Telecom: Searching for a winning strategy Tuomo Summanen Michael Pollitt Judge Institute of Management November 2002 1. Introduction The development of the telecommunications market in the United Kingdom and the corporate strategy and development of the incumbent‚ British Telecom‚ represents an interesting object of analysis for several reasons. First‚ the UK telecommunications market was - along with the U.S. market - among the first telecommunications market that
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Hurry Date‚ a small & privately owned company‚ is one of the America’s leading provider of speed dating with a strong brand recognition. It’s an online version of traditional round-robin speed dating. It operates a website HurryDate.com to screen singles looking to mingle. The range of service it provides are‚ online match-making‚ personal browsing and event hosting. It does this by hosting round-robin meeting event for potentials dating candidates. This is where they make money by charging
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MapReduce is a widely used parallel computing framework for large scale data processing. The two major performance metrics in MapReduce are job execution time and cluster throughput. They can be seriously impacted by straggler machines— machines on which tasks take an unusually long time to finish. Speculative execution is a common approach for dealing with the straggler problem by simply backing up those slow running tasks on alternative machines. Multiple speculative execution strategies have been
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Airbnb offers free rentals to the victims of hurricane Matthew The government ordered millions of residents in the southeastern U.S to vacate their places due to the dangerous hurricane have approached the city. The home sharing platform‚ Airbnb has decided to help the people whose houses were affected by the dangerous storm. Hurricane Matthew moved to Florida’ east cost before affecting the regions of Georgia and South California. Though the storm has weekend‚ the impacts it created takes days to
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Natural selection Natural selection is one of the basic mechanisms of evolution‚ along with mutation‚ migration‚ and genetic drift. Darwin’s grand idea of evolution by natural selection is relatively simple but often misunderstood. To find out how it works‚ imagine a population of beetles: 1. There is variation in traits. For example‚ some beetles are green and some are brown. 2. There is differential reproduction. Since the environment can’t support unlimited population growth‚ not all individuals
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Recruitment and selection forms a core part of the central activities underlying human resource management: namely‚ the acquisition‚ development and reward of workers. It frequently forms an important part of the work of human resource managers – or designated specialists within 13 work organizations. However‚ and importantly‚ recruitment and selection decisions are often for good reason taken by non-specialists‚ by the line managers. There is‚ therefore‚ an important sense in which
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almost failed to promote to next grade. From this story‚ we can see that teenagers always get influence by their peers. Peers’ opinions and choices affect them. They cannot free themselves from their peers and they can’t do away with peers’ pressure. Peer pressure is an important issue for teenagers. There are several reasons to explain this. First‚ teenagers enjoy being in a group of people who agree about things‚ they don’t want to be discriminated against and be pushed away from the group
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clothing market is very dynamic. Fashion has its own cycle‚ but it very hard to understand‚ with items coming in and out of fashion quickly. With retailers changing stock usually at least 4 times a year (seasonal clothes) it can be very hard for a manufacturer to keep up with. Along with this rapid change‚ there has been seen a raise in men’s fashion consciousness‚ with more and more premium priced men’s clothing appearing. This portraying the difficulty the firm may have at keeping up with its competitors
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suit for this application form in selection method. For the selection method‚ application form is easier and fast for the organization to scan the information of applicants and make comparisons. Inside the application form there are included some basic personal information‚ what are the position the applicant want to apply‚ education and work experience. In addition‚ the company can reduces the resources like time‚ and manpower that use in interview and other selection tests because the same form can
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Peer pressure these days has had major effects on our children and young adults. Decisions are being made that are unheard of to parents and teachers. Don’t think that the adolescence making these choices isn’t struggling to grasp hold of the concepts of what they are doing. Unknowingly‚ our generation is making choices that will effect the rest of their lives. Whether or not it’s the way we dress or a decision in unprotected sex‚ it’s still a decision made based on the approval of our peers. Who
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