In September 2004‚ Lorenzo Zambrano‚ the chairman and CEO of Mexican cement maker CEMEX‚ sat in his gleaming modern office in the IBM Tower in New York City‚ an office suite similar in look and feel to CEMEX’s international headquarters in Monterrey‚ Mexico. He was feeling both exhilarated and nervous. His successful company‚ widely admired in its region and a recipient of major international awards for sustainable development‚ had just offered $5.8 billion to acquire the largest producer of
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Digital Transformation The blended use of technology to radically improve performance or reach of the enterprise Shchegolev Gleb Hot subjects in the World Cloud Compu1ng Robo1cs Social Collabora1on Media Tablets 3-‐D Prin1ng Mobile Healthcare Internet of Things Big Data Speech to Speech Transla1on Mobile Payment What’s the Internet of Things Definition: (1) The Internet of Things
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To What Extent Financial Remuneration is the Key Motivating Factor for Employee? 1.0 Introduction Financial remuneration plays an important role as a motivator in the management practice today. Generally speaking‚ financial remuneration is a reward for employment reward of employment‚ which includes all cash or cash-equivalents that are given to employees in exchange for their work or services. It can be seen as the financial part of the compensation package that is not simply relevant to salary
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TO WHAT EXTENT IS INCREASED CONSUMERISM A GOOD THING? In the present age‚ consumption is playing a significant role in our lives. But in the meantime‚ whether increased consumerism has sparked much debate. Consumption is the belief that buying many things is goods. Some people assert that increased consumerism is a good thing while many other argue that increased consumerism is a bad thing for our lives. Then‚ I will describe the positive and negative respects of consumption in this essay.
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To what extent is growing through integration with other businesses a good way for a firm to increase its competitiveness? Growing through integration is concerned with mergers and takeovers of businesses. There are a number of different ways of integrating: Horizontal (same industry‚ same stage of production)‚ backward vertical (same industry towards a supplier)‚ forward vertical (same industry towards the customer) and Conglomerate (different industries). Growing through integration can have
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Cemex Case Write-up Cemex and the Low Income Construction Market * Cemex’s target market in Mexico does not realize their dream home‚ while they can afford it. * Cemex’s revenue comes from big-ticket/large scale customers‚ middle- and upper-income individuals‚ and low income/do-it-yourself homebuilder customers. The sales for low-income customers only drop 10-20% during 1994 Mexico crisis. And Cemex see large market potential in low-income customers market. Thus‚ Cemex’s target market
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Short Essay on Coase’s article: “The Nature of the Firm” Coase’s article “The Nature of the Firm” provides a set of answers to important questions such as “Why do firms exist?” “What characterizes firms?” and “What determines their scale and scope?” According to Coase‚ a firm has to find the most cheap‚ most productive goods and services by establishing contracts in an open‚ efficient market place. However‚ market places are not that pure to let firms to succeed in their needs; they are not fluid. This
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What is the first notion coming up in your mind when you heard of digital games? Just for fun? However‚ digital games can be used in teaching and learning. Students usually complain that the way of teacher’s tutoring is boring. Therefore‚ lots of students in this day and age‚ seldom pay attention to the lesson‚ which result in bad academic results. Teachers have been exploring a variety of ways to make their lessons more interesting‚ in order to enhance students’ learning efficiency. Testing by some
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To what extent did opposition to the policy of appeasing Germany increase in Britain in the years 1936-1939? The policy of appeasement had reached its heights by the period between 1936 and 1939. It was felt by many to be the best policy at the time‚ as it allowed Britain to buy herself some valuable time in order to delay the inevitable war. Opposition during 1936‚ when appeasement was first seen as really taking the forefront of foreign policy‚ was small and weak. However it was by 1939 that
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Introduction: Defining the Digital Native and Digital Immigrant Though the terms themselves are fraught with colonialist and imperialist connotations‚ they will nonetheless serve as an entry point into a discussion defined by a radical shift in society brought about by the ever-pervasive and widespread use of digital technology and the societal and psychological implications of this digital technology. In 2001‚ Marc Prensky‚ an internationally acclaimed thought leader‚ speaker‚ writer‚ consultant
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