Askildsen Collaborating With Customer Communities: Lessons From the Lego Group REPRINT NUMBER 53316 i n n o vat i o n Collaborating With Customer Communities: Lessons From the Lego Group The leading question How can companies collaborate effectively with their customers? Findings Companies need to By tapping into the knowledge and enthusiasm of thousands of longtime users of its products‚ Lego has been able to enhance its product offerings — without increasing
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Some Live More Downstream than Others: Cancer‚ Gender‚ and Environmental Justice Jim Tarter In Jim Tarter’s essay of “Some Live More Downstream than Others: Cancer‚ Gender‚ and Environmental Justice”‚ he mainly talks about the relationship among cancer‚ environmental issues and social justice. And he inspires people to be involved and motivated to care about the environment as well. He was diagnosed with cancer at twenty-seven‚ but was cured after treatment. However‚ his friend‚ sister and aunt
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RISK MITIGATION USING VENTURE AGREEMENTS IN THE UPSTREAM INDUSTRY (A CASE STUDY AND MODELLING APPROACH) BY SODE ADESOJI O. (51124473) AUGUST 2012 A Dissertation Presented In Partial Fulfillment Of The Requirements For The Degree Of MSc. International Business Energy And Petroleum At The University Of Aberdeen DECLARATION I declare that this thesis has been composed by myself‚ that it has not been accepted in any previous application for a degree‚ that the work of which
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The success of LEGO Question 1 LEGO was once at the brink of collapsing in 2004 due to bankruptcy but the toy making company made a turnaround and today it is among the most powerful brands in the world. The company was founded by Ole Kirk Christiansen in 1932 in Denmark. Ole was carpenter who decided to make toys out of wood. Over the years‚ the company tried producing a variety of goods including watches and clothes aiming at becoming a lifestyle brand which made LEGO lose its identity and to grow
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downfall of the LEGO Group. As the consumer trend in the toy industry has shifted towards technology and other substitutes like video games and other online activities have reduced the demand for traditional toys. The toy industry was dominated by a few companies that fought over retail space‚ reduced prices‚ and launched new product lines to appeal to more consumers. Furthermore‚ the increasing power of giant retailers like Wal-Mart and Target reduced LEGO’s retail space as LEGO products generated
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World Academy of Science‚ Engineering and Technology 36 2009 Maintenance Management System for Upstream Operations in Oil and Gas Industry: Case Study paper explores the plant maintenance management system that has been used by giant oil and gas company in Malaysia. The system also called as PMMS used to manage the upstream operations for more than 100 plants of the case study company. Moreover‚ from the observations‚ focus group discussion with PMMS personnel and application through simulation
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Evaluate the evidence for human impacts on downstream flood risk in rural catchments in temperate regions. Before we can evaluate human impacts on flood risk we must first establish what is meant by temperate regions and also rural catchments. Temperate regions are generally regarded as lying between the Tropic of Cancer and the Arctic Circle or the Tropic of Capricorn and the Antarctic Circle and therefore rivers investigated in this essay will fall within these parameters. Rural catchments are
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Operations Strategy and Management Decisions in Lego Group between 2004 and 2009 Summary By 2004 Lego was in considerable trouble; it had made a loss of approximately £200m; sales fell by 40%. One reason for this was lack of success in moving into new markets‚ such as computer games and clothing. However‚ a major cause for the financial woe was due to issues in the supply chain; costs were not being squeezed out‚ and the increase in specialised LEGO models had led to an explosion in the total number
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Lego: Embracing Change by Combining Information System CASE STUDY BI with a he LEGO Group‚ which is headquartered in Billund‚ Denmark‚ is one of the largest toy manufacturers in the world. LEGO’s main products have bee~ the bricks and figures that children have played with for generations. The Danish company has experienced sustained growth since its founding in 1932‚ and for most of its history its major manufacturing facilities were located in Denmark. In 2003‚ LEGO was facing tough
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Risk and the Cost of Capital for Multinational Companies (1713 words) 2015 Table of Contents Introduction 2 Literature Review 2 Capital Structure‚ Risk and the Cost of Capital for Multinational Companies 2 Criticism to the work and the upstream-downstream hypothesis 2 Conclusion 2 References 2 Introduction “Theoretically‚ MNEs should be in a better position than their domestic counterparts to support higher debt ratios because their cash flows are diversified internationally.” (Eiteman‚ et
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