regarded as an industry expert and uses its cutting edge technology to run every aspects of its business on the web. We will try to analyze how Cisco uses its culture for competitive advantage by answering the follow questions: 1. What are the observable artifacts‚ espoused values‚ and basic assumptions associated with Cisco’s culture? Explain. 2. Use the competing values framework to diagnose Cisco’s culture. To what extent does it possess characteristics associated with clan‚ adhocracy‚ market‚
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Comcast Corporation Executive Summary For the past 45 years Comcast Corporation has provided customers with variety of entertainment. Comcast is the fourth largest cable company in the world. Comcast is now serving more than 21 million customers. Comcast Corporation innovatively provided millions of customers with products and entertainment around the globe. Comcast Corporation has merged with different telecommunication companies as well as other entities such as E! Entertainment television‚ QVC
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(2012) differentiate a subgroup from the larger group to which it belongs. This also holds true for all organizations. Baack (2012) describes three levels of culture that influence behaviors in organizations: observable artifacts‚ espoused values‚ and enacted values. Observable artifacts include the physical signs of an organization’s dominant culture; espoused values are the explicitly stated values and norms found in organizations; the values and norms exhibited as employee and managerial behaviors
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Course Project Draft Comcast Portfolio Management Plan Project Comcast is one of the United States leading telecommunications companies operating today. Currently‚ Comcast serves 22.9 million cable customers‚ 16.7 million high-speed Internet customers‚ and 8.4 million telephone services customers. In 1963‚ Ralph J. Roberts founded the company originally branded as American Cable Systems in Tupelo‚ MS. In 1969 the company was renamed Comcast Corporation. The name blends the words communications and
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by industrial organization researchers to organizational culture. A foundational definition by Edgar Schein of MIT’s Sloan School of Management is arrived at as well as the notion that culture can be observed at three levels of the organization: artifacts‚ espoused values‚ and basic assumptions. Contents: • Anthropological Origins of “Culture” • Understanding Culture • Origins of “Organizational Culture” • Understanding Organizational Culture Usually the domain of top executives and uppermanagement
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reward oriented climate towards security of tenure and career progression. According to Schein‚ there are three basic elements of organisational culture and they are artifacts‚ espoused values and basic assumptions. 1. Artifacts: Artifacts is the first level of organisational culture and are hard to decipher. It is observable symbols and signs of the organisations and includes visible parts of organisation e.g.‚ structures‚ processes etc. 2. Espoused Values: Espoused Values is the second level
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Xfinity Cable’s Current Advertising Campaign Comcast Corporation‚ that has recently rebranded itself as Xfinity‚ has reintroduced their spokes-turtles‚ The Slowskys with a new member of the turtle family. In the first of the two new advertising spots on TV‚ Karolyn and Bill Slowsky try to announce the addition of their offspring are mixed up on the baby’s name because “We ’re not fast like Xfinity‚" Karolyn explains” (Reynolds‚ Spangler‚ & Gibbons‚ 2011‚ para. 2). They are unsure of his name due
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DEVRY UNIVERSITY Comcast Corporation Financial Analysis of 2013 Annual Reports Intermediate ACCT II project 6/15/2014 Analysis by Page Table of Contents Introduction The Comcast Corporation is the largest cable and home internet provider in the United States. The company functions as a cable provider and ISP‚ including telephone services for residential and commercial customers throughout the US. This makes Comcast a central focus for both customer and competitor criticism
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Leadership & Organizational Behavior Chapter 14 Summary Organizational Culture Organizational culture consists of the values and assumptions shared within an organization. It defines what is important and unimportant in the company and‚ consequently‚ directs everyone in the organization toward the “right way” of doing things. Elements of Organizational Culture In the context of organizational culture‚ values are discussed as shared values‚ which are values that people within the organization
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Module 2 / Week 2 Abstract Comcast was founded in 1963 and has changed over the years to the greatest Home entertainment provider we know today. Comcast was first incorporated in the state of Pennsylvania in 1969 and offered shares o the public on June 29‚ 1972. 430‚000 shares were issued at $7 per share. Today shares cost an average of $25 to $30.On November 18‚ 2002‚ Comcast and AT&T Broadband combined to form the new Comcast Corporation. Over the years‚ Comcast has offered several programs
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