Mini Case Study Can GE Remake Itself as a Digital Firm? General Electric (GE) is the world ’s largest diversified manufacturer. Fortune named GE "America ’s Most Admired Company" in 1998‚ 1999‚ and 2000. Jack Welch‚ GE ’s CEO and Chairman since 1981‚ is often cited as the most admired CEO in the United States. Headquartered in Fairfield‚ Connecticut‚ the company consists of 20 units‚ including Appliances‚ Broadcasting (NBC)‚ Capital‚ Medical Systems‚ and Transportation Systems. With the acquisition
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UNIVERSAL BANKING What is Universal Banking? “Banking that includes not only services related to savings and loans but also investments.” This is most common in European countries as it is prohibited by law in the United States. Although‚ in recent times there has been much market pressure in the US for change. In universal banking‚ large banks operate extensive networks of branches‚ provide many different services‚ hold several claims on firms (including equity and debt)‚ and participate
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Our Electric Bicycle Project I have added an electric power assist onto a GT mountain bike. With a 3 HP peak motor‚ it is much more powerful than typical electric bicycles. The basic motivation to build an electric bike was to have a fun and efficient and environmentally friendly way to stay out my car for short trips around town‚ and also as a silent trail bike for exploring the hills. I wanted to get some exercise - this bike can still be pedaled. When I first put this together it was even more
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motion control are called drives and employ any of the prime movers such as diesel or petrol engines gas or steam engines hydraulic motors and electric motors for supplying mechanical energy for motion control. Drives employing electric motors are known as Electrical drives. Fig 1.1 Block diagram of an Electrical Drive The advancement in electric drive system is very much related to the development in the power semiconductor devices technology. The introduction of the Silicon Controlled Rectifier
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Universal Health Care The issue of health care is a widely debated issue in the United States today. The United States spends more on health care than any other country in the world‚ but there are 48.6 million people that do not have health insurance. The United States also has one of the lowest life expectancies in the industrialized world‚ and 45‚000 people die every year due to a lack of health care. The United States Congress passed the Affordable Care Act in 2010 to try to correct some
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Metaphysics The Problem of Universals The Ontological problem has occupied many philosophers and intellectuals since the very beginning of human thought. What seems to be a simple and rather ridiculous question to the average person‚ ‘what exists?’ or ‘what is there?’ serves as the general question for the ontological problem. Almost everyone accepts the existence of physical objects‚ to which I will now refer as ‘particulars’. Actual pencils‚ buildings‚ cats‚ humans and planets are all examples
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Question 1 i) The current state and extent of universal design in the interior design practice. The 20th century had brought major social changes with respect to civil and human rights. Medical advances during this period meant that the surviving an injury or illness was far greater. Many people were living longer and the average life expectancy of people with severe impairments was increasing too. Therefore many governments in developed country responded with the introduction of equal rights
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Electric Cars An electric car is a vehicle which gets power from one electric motor or more‚ and an electric car use electrical energy to store batteries or another energy storage device. The developmental history of electric cars is very long‚ and the first automobile all over the world was an electric car. However‚ electric cars had two terrible disadvantages: the problem of energy technology and mileage limit around 20 century. The problems made electric cars disappeared from citizens eyes for
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Electric cars vs the gas oh line cars In the next ten years what the average American drives will be very different than today. Electric cars may phase out gasoline (Gasoline is also known as petrol) in the next couple of decade. Electric cars produce no tailpipe emissions and are much cheaper to fill up than the more common gasoline vehicles. Switching to electric cars will have more benefits than drawbacks in comparison to other fuels such as petrol and diesel. In order to switch to electric
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Introduction and Experimental Goal: An electric field surrounds all electrically charged particles. With electric fields‚ one can determine the effects of all of the charges in the environment. In this lab entitled “Electric Fields and Potential Mapping”‚ the main goal obtained was to examine and deliberate the effects of an electric field and electric potential. Examples of some effects of electric fields include resultant forces‚ changes in motion‚ changes in current flow‚ etc. By using conductive
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