MGMT 405 Current Event Having a business in the electronic industry is difficult because this industry is very competitive. To stay at the same level as other competitors or rise above‚ companies have to be more innovative and efficient. Companies are often under pressure to find the lowest-cost providers‚ and typically are free to look globally. This is where outsourcing and offshoring comes into effect‚ along with the difficulty in finding balance in the corporation when dealing with different
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reveal the three key demands his customers wanted; function‚ quality and low prices (www.Ikea.com/company_history). In 1955 suppliers of Ikea furniture started to reject Ikea‚ due to the demands of the competitors. After suppliers refused to do business‚ Ikea was forced to start manufacturing their own products. As luck would have it this led to innovative designs and improved function at a lower cost. Further yet‚ Ikea designers were able to make pieces that easily fit into convenient sized packaging
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APWH CURRENT EVENT SUMMARIES 1. Extremism Rises Among Myanmar Buddhists : In the past year‚ Myanmar has faced an outbreak in hatred aimed towards the Muslim population within the country. Monks that are influential to the Buddhist-dominant country are inciting violence among all age groups within the state. A main leader in the campaign against Muslims‚ called 969‚ is an ex-prisoner of war‚ Ashin Wirathu‚ is causing ethnic and religious strife with his violence inciting sermons. Ashin‚ using
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Medical Ethics (Current Event Summary #1) Parents oppose end of care for brain-dead son. This event was about Motl Brody of Brooklyn. He was pronounced dead after a half-year fight against a brain tumor‚ and the DR’s at Children’s National Medical Center in Washington say the seventh-grader’s brain has ceased functioning entirely. “ But for the past few days‚ a machine has continued to inflate and deflate his lungs. As of late Friday his heart was still beating with the help of a cocktail of
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Event Article 1 Chief Executive Officer I have always wanted to be the CEO of a large company. A chief executive officer is the highest ranked officer of the business. The only person he or she has to report to is the board of directors. The CEO has to be a great communicator and has to be an awesome people person. Everything he or she does is on the higher level of the business world. After reading this article‚ my mind has been changed a little because of what people think about the CEO of
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Rodney Colt Feimster GLST 200-001 Student ID:25709323 Current Event 2: 2.81m hungry in drought stricken Central America http://article.wn.com/view/2014/08/31/281m_hungry_in_droughtstricken_Central_America/ http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2014/09/01/2003598786 I found this article through World News‚ which is why I included two links. World News used this article from Taipei times. Overview: A drought has ravaged through South and Central America affecting the so-called “dry corridor
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Current Events Assignment In the article it proclaims about how a plane with Russian tourists crashed in the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt just few days ago. Russian tourists were coming back from visiting the wonders of Egypt‚ heading towards St. Petersburg‚ Russia. Most people of Egypt were shocked about this incident. Fortunately‚ the plane did not have any explosives‚ as this is a counterexample regarding ISIS claiming they caused it. Apparently‚ ISIS wants more attention around the globe to scare
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Current Event Summary- 2012 US Presidential Elections Whether it is about taxes‚ spending‚ the bailouts‚ the debt ceiling or entitlements‚ a fundamental source of disagreement between Republicans and Democrats is whether the federal government should be a support system for the country or play an extremely limited role in business‚ social and day-to-day life. The tea party wing of the Republican party has used reducing the size of government as a rallying cry while progressive Democrats
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1984 Current Event: Privacy and Censorship 1) The main issue is that there is a new Facebook feature that allows others to share someone’s post. The creator of the post has “zero control over which posts friends promote” (Guynn). For a $7 fee‚ friends can “repost” statuses‚ leading to a lack of privacy; due to the fact that hundreds or maybe thousands of people you do not know are reading your post. 2) According to Facebook‚ “this feature respects the privacy of the original poster- i.e. it
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there is no such thing as an obesity epidemic; and that America’s large percentage of people who are overweight is nothing to panic over or to consider as a dangerous plague. The fact is‚ however‚ obesity is quite a serious issue. Most recently in current events‚ it was stated that obesity has now surpassed smoking as the leading cause of preventable death in the United States of America. The smoking epidemic gained a great deal of publicity‚ leading to protest groups and awareness groups that all aimed
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