Quirky We make invention accessible. * Quirky – Brain Child of Ben Kaufman a Social Entrepreneur. Quirky is a platform for product ideas that are not generated as part of formal Business and Technology incubation process. But it is a platform where anyone can present his/her idea by paying consideration of USD 10. Basically many people get ideas while actually delivering the tasks and Quirky brings such people together. * It uses crowdsourcing to develop the product‚ by engaging participants
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time. Firms in the 20th century is always on the process to research and development‚ to add value to the products and services that they offer to their customers‚ so as to create sufficient competitive advantage to allow them to stay in the relevant industries. This aim also meant that firms have to spend much of their accounting budget into research and development. However‚ these costs are inevitable as firms stand to lose if they are not innovating enough. The government provides firms with
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Henri Fayol’s classic management functions are known today as planning‚ organizing‚ leading‚ and controlling. Planning is determining organizational goals and a means for achieving them. Organizing is deciding where decisions will be made‚ who will do what jobs and tasks‚ and who will work for whom. Leading is inspiring and motivating workers to work hard to achieve organizational goals. Controlling is monitoring progress toward goal achievement and taking corrective action when needed. Studies show
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Innovation‚ Organizational Capabilities‚ and the Born-Global Firm Author(s): Gary A. Knight and S. Tamar Cavusgil Source: Journal of International Business Studies‚ Vol. 35‚ No. 2 (Mar.‚ 2004)‚ pp. 124-141 Published by: Palgrave Macmillan Journals Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3875247 . Accessed: 24/06/2013 13:59 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use‚ available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp . JSTOR is
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MARYAM ISAH M.SC/SOC-SCI/3434/10-11 THE CHANGING STRUCTURE OF THE NIGERIAN ECONOMY AND IMPLICATIONS FOR DEVELOPMENT 1970-2011 LECTURER:Prof Olowononi DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS AHMADU BELLO ZARIA The structure of Nigerian economy can be broadly classified into four:The production‚Commerce‚Services and others. PRODUCTION: processes and methods employed to transform tangible inputs (raw materials‚ semifinished goods‚ or subassemblies) and intangible
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Why Do Teenagers Act the Way They Do? Teenagers do not grow up in isolation: They are influenced by all that happens around them. This begins from an early age. Among the most important influences on children are parents‚ caregivers and the family. We look in more detail at these influences‚ especially as they relate to drug prevention. The Most Important Influence Most of us are aware of how important the early years of childhood are. During this time children learn so much that will influence
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There are a multitude of reasons why workers to decide to join or attempt to create a union. The overwhelming majority of employees seek to unionize because of dissatisfaction with one or more conditions of employment. Among them‚ the most common areas of employee discontentment usually originate from disagreement with management over compensation‚ benefits‚ managements’ response to grievances‚ high levels of job stress‚ and low job security. While dissatisfaction with one of these areas alone is
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Why do some markets fail? ________________________________________________________ Market Failure Market failure – occurs when the price mechanism causes an inefficient allocation of resources and a net welfare loss in society‚ so resources are not allocated to their best/optimum use. Identifying market failure is difficult because it involves making a value judgement about what is good and what is bad for an economy. However‚ it can be decided what is good or bad to society. Goods may be bad
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issue( violation/transaction). Page 26 ( possible) Shakedown Read the case and think of 3-4 ways the case relates to things we’ve talked about in class. Second half has to offer a detailed solution to the problem. How do you fix this…what would you do… Class overview: Why do ethics matter? Ethics breaks down trusts. How people have and reach moral standards? Feelings/conscious/ might have been influenced by evolution Responsibility and
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Why do Empires decline and fall? During thousands of years‚ human history had known the existence of several empires. While some still question why do Empires decline and fall‚ some historians put their time and energy on other topics such as how‚ for instance‚ empires rise and in some cases subsidize for so long. Considering the fact that empires and therefore their decline and destruction are part of the natural process of human history‚ same way as the end of the dinosaurs which was inevitable
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