What is Design? Thomas Hauffe – Introduction to Designer‚ A Concise History Q1. What was the industrial revolution? When did it occur? How did industrialisation lead to the creation of the design profession? How was industrial manufacturing different from the traditional way of making a product and what role did the designer play in creating new products? The Industrial Revolution was a point in time during the 18th and 19th centuries when basic hand tools were put to a stop‚ and machines‚ factories
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1. What is ethics? Ethics‚ also known as moral philosophy‚ is a branch of philosophy that involves systematizing‚ defending and recommending concepts of right and wrong conduct.[1] The term comes from the Greek word ethos‚ which means "character". 2. What is business ethics? Business ethics (also corporate ethics) is a form of applied ethics or professional ethics that examines ethical principles and moral or ethical problems that arise in a business environment. It
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with… * Diversification: * What are the five “good” reasons for diversifying? * What is related and unrelated diversification? * What theories or ideas are related and unrelated diversifications based on? * There is an inverted “U” relationship between firm diversification and firm performance. In other words‚ at some point increased diversification is thought to impede performance. Why is this? * What does “fit” mean regarding related diversification *
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Matrix was first presented by H. Igor Ansoff in the Harvard Business Review of 19571. A tool used since then for analyzing growth‚ the matrix presents main strategic choices (ie. Market penetration‚ Market Development‚ Product Development‚ and Diversification) which managers can use to determine the direction their company wants to take moving forward. Ansoff Growth Strategy
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Growth Growth can be promoted internally by investing in expansion or externally by acquiring additional business divisions - - Internal growth = can include development of new or changed products External growth = typically involves diversification – businesses related to current product lines or into new areas Grand Strategy: Stability Stability‚ sometimes called a pause strategy‚ means that the organization wants to remain the same size or to grow slowly and in a controlled
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future for Virgin? Diversification is often seen as the last evolution for a company. However‚ there are ways and options to adapt your strategy after you diversify in order to make it more efficient to this new change. Virgin is‚ as we’ve seen in the previous parts‚ a well-diversified company. There are usually 4 paths a diversified company could use after it diversified‚ and we can use them to analyse the potential future of Virgin. 1 Broaden the diversification base Virgin’s essence
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Baseball franchise‚ books and magazine publishing‚ interactive software and internet sites‚ and The Disney Store retail shops. •Based on the above list‚ determine whether or not Walt Disney’s lineup reflects a strategy of related diversification‚ unrelated diversification‚ or a combination of related and unrelated. Explain your answer and be prepared to justify the extent to which
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Seneca On Liberal and Vocational Studies Accorded to the Webster’s Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary Liberal means one who is open-minded. In the days of Seneca liberal studies was the study suitable for free people. Seneca believe that with the good merit value an education including literature‚ music and geometry gives they make liberal studies seems to be a false teaching. He explains that liberal studies are raw material to a virtuous life and they are very necessary to function in a fee society
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In the final paragraph of the book Things Fall Apart‚ Chinua Achebe seems to be saying that not all things that are written about his culture are exactly right. He is demonstrating that actions and events can be very much misinterpreted. The character of the commissioner serves as a direct example of how ignorant and lackadaisical some of these people who wrote about these events actually were. The commissioner is very inconsiderate and knows nothing of the culture or the man that he plans on writing
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its end‚ the evil which it inflicts has only to exceed the advantage derivable from the crime; in this excess of evil one should include the certainty of punishment and the loss of the good which the crime might have produced. All beyond this is superfluous and for that reason tyrannical." He also expressed the concept that laws should be exceedingly clear and easily comprehensible to all citizens. If laws were made explicit to the public‚ he believed‚ crime levels would decrease drastically. Another
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