Article Summary: Strategic Cost Management: The Value Chain Perspective Authors of this article do not believe the concept of “value chain” has been written about enough or clearly enough and therefore attempt to state the importance of the value chain on strategy from a managerial accounting perspective. Michael Porter first wrote about this in 1985. [ (Porter‚ 1985) ] They believe that any organization must understand the entire value chain for the entire industry in order to sustain competitive
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Using value-chain analysis to discover customers’ strategic needs David W. Crain and Stan Abraham David Crain‚ a marketing and strategy consultant‚ is visiting professor of marketing at Whittier College‚ CA‚ and former Director of Marketing at Fluor Corporation (davidwcrain@aol.com). Stan Abraham is professor of strategy and entrepreneurship at Cal Poly Pomona (scabraham@ csupomona.edu) and author of Strategic Planning: A Practical Guide for Competitive Success (Thomson South-Western‚ 2006).
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Office Politics MBA 525DL 09/05/2007 Office Politics Page 1 Who Is Effected by Office Politics Any person who works in an office is affected by office politics whether they chose to participate of stand by and watch. Sarmiento (2003) has developed several rules that can be applied when engaging in office politics. These include not whining‚ make friends not enemies‚ selectively disclose information and do not assume anything will remain a secret‚ the challenge here is not in how
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Changing role of office professionals THE ADMINISTRATIVE ROLE‚ more than most others‚ has been profoundly affected by the information revolution‚ according to Canadian researcher Alice de Wolff. At a meeting of the Office Worker’s Career Assistance Group of Toronto‚ Ms. de Wolff noted that office professionals work constantly with new information technologies. They bring the information economy to life and experience the impact of the information revolution on a daily basis. She told
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Paperless office The idealized office in which paper is absent because all information is stored and transferred electronically. With the ever-expanding application of computers into business areas as diverse as accounting‚ desktop publishing‚ billing‚ mail‚ and scheduling‚ it seemed in the early 80s that the real paperless office was just around the corner. Ironically‚ just the opposite has transpired. The ease with which computers enable people to print all sorts of documents has created a flood
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Office administration is now a combination of information technology‚ human resource management‚ office resource management‚ written communication‚ verbal communication‚ research and budgeting. All areas of modern business and government require experts who can implement and manage office administration systems. Efficiency can only be achieved if the people working with technology and new administration systems are trained specialists ... anyone for coffee? As a trained office professional
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OFFICE ERGONOMICS ERGONOMICS: Ergonomics is the science of designing the job‚ equipment‚ and workplace to fit the worker. Proper ergonomic design is necessary to prevent repetitive strain injuries‚ which can develop over time and can lead to long-term disability.[1] The International Ergonomics Association defines ergonomics as follows:[2] Ergonomics (or human factors) is the scientific discipline concerned with the understanding of interactions among humans and other elements of a system‚ and
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Along with information technology‚ it can be said that office technology‚ more specifically‚ has had a significant impact on the business community‚ changing the way corporations handle transaction‚ daily tasks‚ and communication. Office technology is generally concerned with programs that deal with information‚ such as word processing‚ data processing‚ graphics‚ desktop publishing‚ and communications (Tansey 31). Most businesses now are supported by what has been called the backbone
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included in the story‚ “At the Office by W.M. Akers” the main character is at his mom’s office alone‚ while his mom finishes her work. As his mom is gone‚ he hears a noise claiming it to be a ‘monster’‚ so he investigates. As included in the second story‚ “Alone in the Universe” the main character and their friends go on a camping trip‚ when they are ready to go to sleep they see a plane that looks like a UFO and they all believe in aliens now. In‚ “At the Office by W.M. Akers” ‚ the author used
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Thomas Green: Power‚ Office Politics and a Career in Crisis Q3. What are the possible underlying agendas of Davis and McDonald? Ans. Davis and McDonald are industry veterans who have grown from where Thomas has grown to their current positions‚ having spent multiple years understanding the ground realities. Thomas seems to have assumed that Davis has an underlying agenda against him because he opposed Davis publicly during the meeting. This bias could partly be coming from the fact that McDonald
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