252 Management Information Systems REAL WORLD ~ CASE Amazon‚ eBay‚ and Google: Unlocking and Sharing Business Databases The meeting had dragged on for more than an hour that rainy day in Seattle‚ and Jeff Bezos had heard enough. The CEO had rounded up 15 or so senior engineers and managers in one of Amazon’s offices to tackle a question buzzing inside the company: Should Amazon bust open the doors of its most prized data warehouse‚ containing its myriad databases‚ and let an eager world
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executives and engineers around the world. For techno-evangelists‚ Google is a marvel of Web brilliance. For Wall Street‚ it may be the IPO that changes everything (again) …”. Those are general comments which provide us a certain perception about Google‚ a leading search engine in the world these days. Google’s business strategy is to provide useful and related information to millions of people all over the world who rely on Google to disentangle their troubles. Meanwhile‚ Google’s mission is “to
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The term “Collective Bargaining” originated in the writings of Sidney and Beatrice Webb‚ the famed historian of the British labour movement‚ towards the end of the 19th century. Collective bargaining is a process of joint decision-making and basically represents a democratic way of life in industry. It establishes a culture of bipartism and joint consultation in industry and a flexible method of adjustment to economic and technical changes in an industry. It helps in establishing industrial peace
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The rise of Google‚ now a $6.1 billion company‚ has been fast and fierce. Founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page met in 1995 as Stanford University graduate students. They created a search engine that combined the technologies of Page’s PageRank system‚ which evaluates a page’s importance based on the external links to it‚ and Brin’s Web crawler‚ which visits Web sites and records a summary of their content. Because Google was so effective‚ it quickly became the search engine of choice for Web users
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keep its huge growth rates and forgot a little bit about its initial motto‚ which was “make money without doing evil”. Also‚ it was proved that Google helped the Chinese government to censor search results‚ which were critizing the government. It was also collecting personal data from Wi-Fi networks while it was photographing the streets for its Google Street view application and there was also an investigation about Google’s lobbying trying to make the government institute a “Net neutrality”
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Title: Is Google Books a Good Thing? The Google Books project has been a working progress ever since Google was created. The co-founders of Google‚ Sergey Brin and Larry Page had been working on a research project that was supported by the Stanford digital Library Technologies Project in 1996. Google intends to scan every book ever published and make all of the text searchable so that people can find the relevant information they need about book. They want to make books more accessible to
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A Supplier Alliance at Quaker Oats Summary Quaker Oats Company of Chicago‚ IL formed an alliance with Graham Packaging of York‚ PA. Graham is a leading global manufacturer of custom blow molded plastic containers. Plastic bottles are the largest single quantity and cost item purchased by Quaker Oats. Gatorade had captured over 82% of the global market share in the sports beverage industry. The purchasing department established a goal of lowering the bottling cost $10 million to $15 million per
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CONTENT: I. INTRODUCTION …………………………………………………………………………………… 3 II. CREATIVITY TOOLS IN GOOGLE………………………………………………………………… 3 1. Brainstorming ……………………………………………………….. 3 2. Six thinking hats …………………………………………………… 4 3. Fish bone ……………………………………………………………..5 III. GOOGLE’S INNOVATION MANAGEMENT………………………………………………… 5 1. Managing human resources ……………………………………… 5 2. Managing knowledge acquisition ………………………………… 6 3. Managing the organizational culture ……………………………… 6
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HR - Chapter 13: Labor Relations and Collective Bargaining Why do workers join Unions? There are three main reasons why workers join unions: * Dissatisfaction with the work environment (wages‚ benefits‚ supervision) * A desire to have more influence in affecting change in the work environment * Employee believe that unions can actually improve conditions and have an impact at their own workplace Effects of Unions Workers join Unions to improve their wages‚ working conditions
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2011: Google - GOOG - from FORTUNE." CNNMoney Business‚ Financial and Personal Finance News. Web. 16 Oct. 2011. Web. 12 Sept. 2011. . "Google’s Chinese Exit: Any Implication in Foreign Investment." Asianbiz. Web. 16 Oct. 2011. Google Analytics. 21 Aug. 2009. Web. 13 Oct. 2011. "Google Company." Google. Web. 10 Oct. 2011. Google ’s Global Development Strategies. Lucien Moons. 23 February‚ 2011. Business and Software Strategy for Globalization "Google Offices." Google. Web. 16 Oct. 2011. "Google Technology
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