Joey Lane Professor Holmes English 102 12-9-10 Benefits of P2P and File Sharing File sharing started with tapes in the 1970’s and CD’s in the 1980’s but file sharing did not gain mainstream attention until Napster was invented by Shawn Fanning in 1999. Napster‚ the first large scale illegal file sharing program‚ was a peer to peer (P2P) program which allows users to trade files from one computer to another through a central program. Once Napster was released‚ it immediately gained widespread
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Hotel and Tourism Management Institute‚ Switzerland How Kolb’s individual preferenceslearning styles influence the knowledge sharing in the case of The Ritz Carlton Hotel in Beijing Yang Liu (Vivian) 11th September 2012 Background Information Dixon stated in 1999‚ “We have entered the knowledge age‚ and the new currency is learning.”Intellectual capital and the management of knowledge are playing increasingly important roles in today’s organizational world (Chase‚ 1997 cited in Jarrar and Zairi
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Introduction Knowledge is an important element in every individuals’ lives but most importantly to businesses to succeed in today’s economy. The successfulness of knowledge is through many strategies that involve knowledge creation‚ knowledge transfer and knowledge management and also by using advanced IT systems through the economic growth and change (Anantatmula and Kanungo‚ 2010). The purpose of this report is to evaluate how successful the KM strategies are in place within Apple and to evaluate
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Toyota Motor Manufacturing‚ USA‚ Inc Case Analysis * Main and sub ideas of the case. The main topic of the case was the problems caused by defective or damaged seats. TMM USA’s seat problem was threefold. The first was the actual defects with the hooks and the damaged caused by cross threading by employees when installing the seats. This problem led to the second problem‚ which was the departure from the Toyota Production System (TPS) when dealing with the seat problem. Rather than fix the problem
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Introduction The role of tacit and explicit knowledge in the workplace Elizabeth A. Smith The author Elizabeth A. Smith is Vice President of Summit Resources‚ Inc.‚ Houston‚ Texas‚ USA‚ and Adjunct Professor in Administrative Sciences‚ School of Business and Public Administration at the University of Houston Clear Lake. Keywords Knowledge workers‚ Information resources management‚ Motivation Abstract Knowledge plays a key role in the information revolution. Major challenges are
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In August 2007‚ one of the world’s leading automobile manufacturers‚ Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC)‚ announced that its joint venture in India‚ Toyota Kirloskar Motor Private Limited (TKM) had set up a technical school called Toyota Technical Training Institute (TTTI)‚ on the outskirts of Bangalore‚ India. The company said that TTTI was meant for those who had passed out of middle school (Class 10) but could not continue their education due to financial or other constraints. TMC projected the setting
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1. How important are emotions to our purposes? Extremely important. If we had no emotion‚ then what is the reason to live‚ or do anything purposeful‚ if no sense of achievement‚ happiness has occurred. 2. Would we seek knowledge‚ or even be capable of knowledge‚ without purposefulness? In media programs‚ it has been hinted at the possibility of aliens who have no feeling‚ but have the purpose to conquer‚ or some other objective. As such‚ 3. How do our feelings affect our perceptions?
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Presentation Structure Knowledge Management and Its Effects on Performance‚ including BP as a case study: Introduction of Knowledge Management: • Definition and the Essence of KM • Perspectives on Knowledge Management • Knowledge Management Capabilities Needed • Why organisations fail to manage knowledge Effects on Performance: • KM in BP • KM in achieving Operational Excellence in BP • Frame Work • BP’s Philosophy • Peer Group Activity relating to BP • Balance Score Card for Performance Measurement
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Toyota Motor Manufacturing – Assignment #6 Mgmt 660 - Professor Suresh Chand Date: September 18‚ 2010 Toyota Assignment #6 (1) As Doug Friesen‚ what would you do to address the seat problem? Where would you focus your attention and solution efforts? What options exist? What would you recommend? Why? The first thing that should be addressed is finding what the actual reason for the problem is. In looking at the defect data from Exhibit 8‚ it identifies 5 seat defects that constitute
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1.8 million carsharing customers worldwide and 700‚000 in Europe (Shaheen‚ S.‚ Cohen‚ A. 2012‚ tsrc.berkeley.edu/node/701 ) (Briggs‚ M. 2014‚ www.slideshare.net/FrostandSullivan/ corporate-carsharing-3-1814). 6. Taylor‚ E. (2014) Daimler ’s car sharing business car2go to quit UK‚ London a challenge 7. Dixit‚ vs and Rashidi‚ T.H. (2014) Modelling crash propensity of carshare members from October 2010; Frost and Sullivan: 90‚000 vehicles (2014)‚ a 33% increase over the fleet size in 3. Bieszczat
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