document provided. 1. Kelly – Senior Engineer Product Development a. Completing existing work is difficult due to previous lay-offs. b. Pat is talking to Kelly’s staff therefore underminding Kelly’s authority. c. He cannot meet an August deadline for the prototype because “there is no time”. d. Kelly doesn’t believe the budget is an accurate assessment. 2. Pat – Marketing Executive a. Need a quick turnaround with the prototype in order to beat the competition. b. A delayed launch will be costly
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that there is not enough time to meet the deadline of August for the project. Even though Pat seems to show that‚ there is some chance to do so. b. Pat – believes that an “Operation Optimization†project needs to be embarked on now to improve the market shares of AcuScan. She believes that they can accomplish this by an August time line and for 2/3‚ the original projected cost. He also believes that Chris is not supporting him and is trying to undercut him while he is CYA. c. Cliff – understands
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that there is not enough time to meet the deadline of August for the project. Even though Pat seems to show that‚ there is some chance to do so. b. Pat believes that an "Operation Optimization" project needs to be embarked on now to improve the market shares of AcuScan. She believes that they can accomplish this by an August time line and for 2/3‚ the original projected cost. He also believes that Chris is not supporting him and is trying to undercut him while he is CYA. c. Cliff understands
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assumptions held by Pat; two to three assumptions held by Cliff; two to three assumptions held by Chris. i. Kelly 1. Pat isn’t knowledgeable about quality control 2. Does not think the features presented can be done in time 3. Pat does not have technology experience because prior he was in a different industry 4. Does not have enough staff due to layoffs 5. Thinks the budget is unrealistic ii. Pat 1. Prototype available by August 2. Thinks Kelly has no respect for Pat 3. Thinks Kelly is
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throughout this response include Chris O’Doherty (b.1951) a contemporary Australian artist and Lin Onus (b. 1948 d.1996) a contemporary Indigenous Australian artist. The artworks in which will be compared and contrasted are Chris O’Doherty’s Aussie Jesus series‚ including “Aussie Jesus at the Football” (1996) available in poster‚ calendar and t-shirt form and Lin Onus’ three metre mixed media installation “Fruit Bats”(1990) Although both artists are Australian‚ Chris O’Doherty is an Anglo-Saxon Australian
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young man named Chris McCandless‚ from a prosperous and loving family‚ hitchhiked across the country to Alaska. He gave $25‚000 of his savings to charity‚ left his car and nearly all of his possessions. He burned all the cash he had in his wallet‚ and created a new life. Four months later‚ his body was found in an abandoned bus. Jon Krakauer constructed a journalistic account of McCandless ’s story. Bordering on obsession‚ Krakauer looks for the clues to the mystery that is Chris McCandless. What
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The Knowledge Management method from Chris Collison and Geoff Parcell is a framework that can be used for learning‚ capturing‚ sharing and exploiting knowledge‚ experience and good practices. Knowledge Management is an oxymoron – nobody can really manage an asset which resides in the heads of employees‚ and is shared primarily through conversation. What you can do‚ though‚ is: to manage the environment in which knowledge can be created‚ discovered‚ captured‚ shared‚ distilled‚ validated‚ transferred
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Case Summary of Jamie Turner The case describes the evolution of an interpersonal mismatch between a previously successful manager‚ Jamie Turner‚ and his new boss‚ Pat Cardullo. Turner‚ a 32 year old MBA graduate‚ has been recruited by Cardullo to be vice president of marketing and sales at Modern Lighting Industries‚ Inc. (MLI). MLI‚ a struggling regional distributor of industrial lighting systems and equipment based in Chicago‚ has recently been acquired by a division of the much larger San
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Software‚ Pat Lambert‚ Director of Marketing‚ Cliff O’Connor‚ CEO and Chris Martinas‚ Vice President of Product Development. The assumptions of each employee are recognized and discussed starting with Kelly Thomas. Kelly feels the budget and timeline to be impractical and thinks Optimize is putting the company on the line. He assumes that only one feature of the Optimize application can be developed by the company’s dead line of August first. Based on his conversations and e-mails with Chris‚ Kelly
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Into The Wild Chris McCandless‚ fool or hero? I say fool. What was he thinking? What could drive a man to abandon everything‚ his family‚ friends and even possession to pursue an Idealism that eventually led to his own death? What can I make of this tremendous tragedy? His confused mind pushed him into sad solitude. To travel from here to there with the most extreme case of stubbornness. Even when he had no good knowledge of how to fend for himself he still wandered "Into The Wild". The wild that
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