Account for why some enterprises become successful innovators and why others do not. It is a difficult question to answer why some enterprises become successful innovators while others do not especially in these days of rapid technological changes‚ high inflation and highly fluctuating exchange rates in the world of borderless world. The first reaction is it could be due to the strong entrepreneurial leadership of the enterprises in terms of knowledge management or an acute sense of financial investment
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Earthquakes: Why do some places suffer more than others? Whilst earthquakes are perhaps the most frequently occurring natural hazard‚ their impact on people‚ property and communities varies enormously from one place to another. It is possible to identify a number of factors that cause some places to suffer more than others. Whilst some are large scale and are to do with tectonic location‚ others are decided at a much more local scale‚ and relate to building design and levels of preparedness. Perhaps
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I’d first like to address Group 4’s question which questions‚ “Why do you think that the majority of people who have a disability have always been poor‚ powerless‚ and degraded?” Disabled persons are part of the biggest minority in the world‚ and naturally the minorities get less benefits than the majority. United Nations Enable states that “Persons with disabilities are routinely denied these basic rights: Receiving an education‚ Living independently in the community‚ getting jobs‚ even when well
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A leader’s guide understanding complex organizations: An expanded “7-S” perspective Large organizations are complex in nature. According to Weber ( 1998:1)‚ ‘ one of the most useful frameworks ever developed for understanding an entire organization is the classic “7-S Framework” ‘ which states that ‘an organization could be understood in terms of a dynamic relationship among seven key elements: Strategy‚ Structure‚ Systems‚ Superordinate goals‚ Style‚ Staff(people)‚ and Skills.’ It is argued that
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Outsourcing Journey - Assignment #5 Question: Why do you think Lego’s outsourcing “failed”? (What factors explain the short-lived outsourcing relationship between Lego and Flextronics?) To answer this question‚ I want to state the fact that short-lived relationship between Lego and Flextronics was not a total failure. And to begin with‚ I want to list some of things that Lego learned through this outsourcing. From this list‚ we can also see why their relationship was short-lived. * There
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market for your domestic products by selling internationally (Export) • Requires a company to tap into their core competencies 2. Move production to the most efficient countries to realize location economies • Some countries have a comparative advantage of production • Transportation costs and trade barriers must not be an issue • Location Economies is the value created by finding the most competitive place to produce product‚ therefore adding value
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technology. ======Technology can have its disadvantages on how people effectively develop their reading skills and abilities. Carr is a person that is expressing his fear about the rapid expansion of technology. Carr’s main point of focus is how the ability to read is now beginning to fade away (Carr). Google has made it easy to find the solution to a problem. He does say that we read more compared to in the past by reading what is on the web. Even though we may read more by using technology are ability
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technology have created a world in which humans are dependent on at least one source of technology in their everyday lives. This dependency has raised the issue of whether technology is playing a good role in the lives of humans or not. It is often believed that technology has saturated our job market and has restricted people’s ability to think deeply in a specific area of study. Many people are starting to question the need for human input in any aspect of life when technology is far more advanced
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As children develop‚ they become more conscious that the social world consists of males and females‚ that they belonging to one of these categories‚ and there are expectations of masculine and feminine behaviour. Although most children generally accept same-sex behaviour and reject opposite-sex behaviour‚ the amount of sex-typical behaviour varies from children to children. There are many factors that account for such variation‚ and debate is concerned with the extent to which sex-typical behaviour
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definition of economics as it varies from the opinions among economist. However‚ many have chosen to agree with Alfred Marshall‚ a leading 19th century English economist‚ that economics is “a study of mankind in the ordinary business of life; it examines that part of individual and social action which is most closely connected with the attainment and with the use of the material requisites of wellbeing.” In other words‚ it also means that economics is a study of how in our daily lives certain actions
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