Discover Your Products’ Hidden Potential by Ian C. MacMillan and Rita Gunther McGrath A simple matrix helps you identify the attributes that will make your goods and services most competitive. Why did a minor math error that would occur only once every 27‚000 years so enrage customers that it briefly threatened to derail Intel’s Pentium chip? And how could a feature as trivial as an inexpensive cup holder swing millions of customers to purchase a $17‚000 automobile—particularly when only
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The Hidden Factory Jeffrey G. Miller and Thomas E. Vollmann Harvard Business Review No. 85510 This document is authorized for use only by Christopher Bourbeau (cebourbe@illinois.edu). Copying or posting is an infringement of copyright. Please contact customerservice@harvardbusiness.org or 800-988-0886 for additional copies. HBR SEPTEMBER–OCTOBER 1985 The Hidden Factory Jeffrey G. Miller and Thomas E. Vollmann While the world’s attention is focused on the fight to increase productivity and
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media should stay the same. The popular saying‚ “If it’s not broke‚ don’t fix it” demonstrates this. However‚ our society demands open-mindedness to revolutionize education and media to institute a more involved level from the public. In the essay‚ Hidden Intellectualism‚ written by Gerald Graff‚ he supports the argument of education becoming more open minded when he says‚ “The challenge‚ as college professor Ned Laff has put it‚ ‘is not simply to exploit students’ nonacademic interests‚ but to get
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like it can be a superhero’s name‚ but he‚ Malcolm X‚ being a rights-activist and public speaker‚ once said‚ “I believe in human beings‚ and that all human beings should be respected as such‚ regardless of their color.” (Quotes by X 1). X‚ a role model to the black community and founder of the Muslim Mosque Inc.‚ was a powerful black leader who fought for human rights and equality. X became one of the most known people‚ somewhat of an alternative to Martin Luther King Jr.‚ to speak up against the
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apprentice to a machinist. In 1888‚ Ford would marry his wife‚ Clara Bryant. Henry Ford would go on to be one of the most successful designers of his time. His invention of the Model T was one that advanced the world to new levels. Also known as the Tin Lizzie‚ the Model T made transportation a much simpler process. Demand for the Model T skyrocketed as it grew more popular every day. As a result‚ Ford created the assembly line process. He wanted to come up with an easier way to satisfy the needs of his
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The Elaboration Likelihood Model has been hailed by some as “unquestionably the most influential recent theoretical development in persuasion research” (O’Keefe‚ 2002). Even if this is the case‚ it is by no means a perfect theory. One of the most commonly cited criticisms of the elaboration likelihood model is the vacuous nature of the “argument strength” component. Although this criticism is useful for pointing out an area of the model that can be fine-tuned‚ any perceived shortcomings due to
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Capability Maturity Model Capability Maturity Model is a reference model of mature practices in a specified discipline‚ used to assess a group’s capability to perform that discipline. CMM is a collection of instructions an organization can follow with the purpose to gain better control over its Software development process. Capability Maturity Models differ by discipline‚ structure (staged versus continuous)‚ how maturity is defined and how capability is defined. CMM are used in process Improvement
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The Document Object Model The Document Object Model is a major component of Dynamic Hypertext Markup Language‚ or DHTML. DHTML is what has allowed web pages to become more interactive over the years. Improved animations‚ form processing‚ document manipulation‚ and online games are all made possible through the use of DHTML. DHTML is primarily composed of JavaScript‚ XHTML‚ CSS‚ and the Document Object Model (DOM). According to Chapter 10 of JavaScript 5th Edition (Gosselin‚ D. 2011)‚ the DOM “represents
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of the Association for Information Systems (Volume 16‚ 2005) 1-25 1 CLARIFYING BUSINESS MODELS: ORIGINS‚ PRESENT‚ AND FUTURE OF THE CONCEPT Alexander Osterwalder University of Lausanne and BusinessModelDesign.com Yves Pigneur University of Lausanne yves.pigneur@unil.ch Christopher L. Tucci Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ABSTRACT This paper aims to clarify the concept of business models‚ its usages‚ and its roles in the Information Systems domain. A review of the literature shows
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A human of height 1.8m moves with a constant speed of 0.9 m/s along the speci¯ed direct paths to radar inside the forest. The human is modeled using PEC ellipsoids‚ created based on the Boulic model as described in Section 2. The forest is modeled using identical trunks of 3 meters height and 11 cm radius which are distributed uniformly inside the 40£40m2 region. PEC is assumed for the trunk material properties as well as the ground. A trunk density of 3.8% (#/m2) is assumed‚ which amounts to 35
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