Avoiding the Alignment Trap in Information Technology 1 About the Case • Article in “MIT Sloan Management Review” • Article is prepared based on survey of more than 500 senior • • business & technology executives and in-depth interview of 30 CIOs. The principle findings of the study is that even at companies that were focused on alignment‚ business performance dependent on IT sometimes went sideways‚ or even declined. Article talks about two primary factors for success in IT: • • Alignment
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swam with my friends that live nearby . During the summer I like to do projects out of wood and other materials such as a go carts ‚trigger box trap which works by a rectangular prism that has a drop door on the entrance and a trigger in the back of the trap that is a stick with a notch in it so once the animal hit the trigger the door will fall and trap it . The last project that I did was make a crossbow out of plywood and the bow was made out of hickory and the string from a bike inner
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Summary of “The hidden traps in decision making” This article is written by John S. Hammond‚ Ralph L. Keeney‚ and Howard Raiffa in 1998. The article talks about many manager were cheated by the presentational right decision and they already fall into the traps. Many Executives likely made the right decision‚ in fact this is sensory misperception. There are various traps that discussed in article: the anchoring trap‚ the status-quo trap‚ the sunk-cost trap‚ the confirming evidence
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"RAWR!" You hear as a giant three hundred foot Venus fly trap comes falling out of the sky. You’ve only heard legends of the Venus fly trap known as John. She goes around destroying entire planets which it why Mars‚ Jupiter‚ and Planet X is now just a figment of the imagination. As John goes rampaging through you start seeing the Nova Squadron forming a huge shield using the galactic rift fleet. Now let’s go back to the birthplace of John. John was a science experiment that came from the planet
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Best Baits for Rat Trap Are they rats in your house? Are they becoming a bother? Do not worry anymore. One way of solving the nuisance of rats in your home is to have baits for rattraps. Otherwise‚ your work would be in vain. A realization about good baits comes when the rats destroy something that is very dear to you in the house. If I may ask‚ have you ever tried baits from Amazon.com? It could provide you with very good baits for your traps. This article solves your problem as it gives you a
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As a result of Spin Master’s success‚ decision errors and traps poses a potential problem for the company’s future. For example‚ heuristics. The lack of information‚ time and energy from workers may cause the manager to take shortcuts and make decisions based on past successes. More specifically‚ representation bias. This is a problem because prior philosophy and marketing techniques may have worked on one product‚ but it may not necessarily work on another product‚ especially because Spin Master’s
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Stump Grinder Rental - What You Need to Know Stumps can break up your lawn‚ are tripping hazards and can make basic lawn maintenance more challenging. While you could hire a professional service to remove your stumps for you‚ a stump grinder rental may be a more economical route. A stump grinder is large gas-powered tool that resembles a tractor mower with a large lever protruding out the front. A steel studded disc is mounted on the end of the lever and is used to chip away at the wood‚ leaving
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my years of education in the Spanish language had allowed me to effectively decipher it. To whomever finds this letter‚ I was one of the sailors aboard the Sanlúcar‚ the Spanish cargo ship that crashed near the shore of this accursed island: Ship-Trap Island. We were on a cargo run to the port of Southampton after we left Spain‚ but while crossing near this island‚ we took a turn to a channel. That channel did not exist‚ and our boat capsized and I have no memory of the events immediately after
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have dropped. Yet divorce is still considered a social problem. I find it remarkable that Disney made The Parent Trap‚ a wacky family comedy scrutinizing the “children of divorce” wish for divorced parents reconciliation and a family life so fascinating. Indeed‚ divorce is one of the most stressful events that not only affect two individuals‚ but it also affects children. The Parent Trap‚ a remake of the Disney’s 1961 classic‚ describes the effects of parents’ divorce on children. Starring in the movie
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philosophies and types used in the world of business. These types of management differ from one another. In some cases‚ a few of these management types can be mixed together in order to create something custom for a specific requirement. Management by Objectives (MBO) is one of the frequently used management types. The popularity and the proven results are the main reasons behind everyone adopting this technique for their organization. As valid as it is for many management types‚ MBO is a systematic
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