Introduction There are projects going on all around us everyday. Some are large and some are small. Projects are unique‚ it is one time operation designed to accomplish a set of objectives in a limited time frame. Example of projects includes designing new products or services‚ construction of shopping mall‚ merging two companies and designing and running a political campaign. They all involves tremendous amount of planning‚ preparation‚ and co-coordinating work that needs to be done. Projects
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strategies‚ and policies. These companies are what Jim Collins and Jerry Porras call "visionary". Built to Last seeks to discover these timeless management principles that make a company truly "visionary" (Collins & Porras‚ 2002). One of the central principles presented in Built to Last is the importance placed upon building the company‚ rather than relying exclusively on building a specific product or service. Collins and Porras use the metaphor of clock-building versus time-telling to illustrate this
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Built To Last - Summary of Key Points Written by James Collins & Jerry Porras both are associated with Stanford About this book: This summary of Built to Last is included because if one is going to change an organization‚ one needs to know what to change towards. This book is one of the best we know of that answers that question. It is one of the best pieces of research done on why certain organizations are more successful over time than others. Because its time horizon is a minimum of 50 years
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in a post graduate PhD course are truly in the eye of the beholder‚ or in this case‚ in the eye of the learner. A great deal of outside research was completed to support as well as contradict the findings of authors James C. Collins and Jerry I. Porras of Built to Last‚ and Jerald Greenberg in Managing Behaviors in Organizations. When the dust had settled the topics that provided the greatest opportunity to learn as per this PhD student were: Who or What is Visionary‚ Culture of High Achieving
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Built To Last James C. Collins and Jerry I. Porras Chapter 1 The Best of The Best The critical question is not “What’s common across a group of companies?” Rather‚ the critical issues are: “What’s essentially different about these companies? Selected a comparison company for each visionary company. Compare gold medal teams to silver and bronze medal teams whenever possible to give real meaning to our findings. History and Evolution They reflect the accumulation of past events and the shaping force
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UNIT 4 - SUCCESS People are fascinated by success. Business commentators try to understand the success factors that make for successful individuals‚ products and companies‚ and for economically successful countries. People Different types of organisations require different types of leaders. Think of start-ups with their dynamic entrepreneurs‚ mature companies with their solid but hopefully inspirational CEOs‚ companies in difficulty with their turnaround specialists. Each also requires managers
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SUMMURY OF: Building Your Company`s vision By James C. Collins and Jerry I. Porras Companies that enjoy enduring success have core values and a core purpose that remain fixed while their business strategies and practices endlessly adapt to a changing world. Examples include Hewlett-Packard‚ 3M‚ Johnson & Johnson‚ Proctor & Gamble‚ Merck‚ Sony‚ Motorola‚ and Nordstrom. Truly great companies understand the difference between what should never change and what should
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1. Naam van de methode/ naam van de uitgever: De methode die er op mijn stageplaats gebruikt word tijdens het vak: Taal‚ is de methode: Taal in beeld. Deze methode is uitgegeven door Zwijsen. 2. Wat is de visie/ inhoud van de taalmethode?: taal in beeld is een compacte‚ flexibele en opbrengstgerichte methode. Taal in beeld is een complete methode: het programma biedt alle leerstof aan die een school op basis van de kerndoelen geacht wordt aan te bieden. Scholen hebben ook ruimte voor een eigen
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2 Methode 2.1 Het lineaire regressiemodel Het lineaire regressiemodel wordt veel gebruikt binnen de economische wetenschap om situaties of gebeurtenissen te verklaren of te voorspellen. De relaties tussen verschillende variabelen worden door toepassing van dit regressiemodel verklaard. Wiskundig gezien wordt het lineaire regressiemodel als volgt weergegeven: Yt = α + βxt + ut. Y is de afhankelijke variabele‚ de onafhankelijke en verklarende variabele is x‚ α is een constante‚ β geeft de helling
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grandement varier la Tg. Il existe plusieurs méthode pour mesurer la Tg. Parmi celles-ci‚ on retrouve la méthode DSC et la méthode DMA. La température de fusion est également une propriété importante. La température de fusion est la température à laquelle la partie cristalline du polymère "fond". Les facteurs qui ont une influence sur la Tg ont‚ pour la plus part‚ également une influence sur la température de fusion. On peut mesurer la Tg par la méthode DSC. Les température de cristallisation
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