A New Focus for McKinsey Rajat Gupta‚ a 20-year veteran committed to decide to put emphasis on knowledge development‚ launched a four-pronged attack to help McKinsey to build up their long tern capital. First‚ he capitalized the firm’s long tern investment by creating come new channels and forums for knowledge development and organizational learning. Second‚ he created a Practice Olympic to encourage regional offices to extend ideas that grew out of client engagement. Third‚ he assigned senior
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------------------------------------------------- Case Study Review on McKinsey & Company: Managing Knowledge and Learning. Harvard Business School. Article 9-396-357. Rev. January 4‚ 2000 ------------------------------------------------- Knowledge is fundamentally a cognitive phenomenon (Geisler‚ 2007.p. 467) which is embedded in the intellectual capital: the human and structural capital (Bercerra-Fernandez‚ Gonzales and Rajiv Sabherwal‚ 2002‚ p.3) of organizations. The acquisition or to be
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give an overview of English language teaching in Thailand. Firstly‚ some problems involved in the teaching of English to Thais are discussed‚ and this is followed by an examination of some of the approaches used here for the teaching of English. Finally‚ attempts to tackle problems are presented. Problems In the first regard‚ it will be shown that English and Thai are different at all levels: pronunciation‚ word‚ grammar and text. Moreover‚ there are different cultural notions between
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LITERATURE THAI LITERATURE ◦The earliest literature of the Thai people was written in Chinese until the 13th century‚ then in Sanskrit and Pali from India. ◦Thai literature was traditionally heavily influenced by Indian culture from the 13th century. Thailand’s national epic is a version of the Ramayana called theRamakien. ◦The most important poet in Thai literature was Sunthorn Phu‚ who is best known for his romantic adventure story Phra Aphai Mani and for nine travel pieces called Nirats. THAI FOLKLORE
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Style? Causal naked wedding? Just provide you a new suggestion‚ have you ever thought of holding Thai style wedding? Are you still pondering? Let me first introduce the Thai wedding to you‚ and then compare the differences between Thai and Hong Kong wedding style. In this essay‚ I will first focus on the wedding styles in Thailand and Hong Kong. Afterwards‚ I will examine the general differences of Thai marriage and Hong Kong marriage‚ such as preparation of wedding ceremony‚ the process of wedding
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disadvantages‚ this topic is very interesting to study. For this reason‚ I will discuss the effects of globalization on Thailand‚ which is the place I was born‚ and why does it bring more benefits than detriments to my country. Moreover‚ how it affects the Thai economy and culture is the main focus. This essay will be divided into 4 main parts: the description of globalization‚ what causes globalization‚ the advantages and disadvantages of globalization‚ and the effects of globalization in Thailand. The last
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level of participation in innovative problem-solving” (Bessant‚ 2003‚ s. 767) ”Companies increasingly cannot expect to warehouse their technologies‚ waiting until their businesses make use of them” (Chesbrough‚ 2003‚ p. 132) Thirdly‚ the 7-S framework contains the very process of innovation. The process is divided into a series of relatively well-known steps in the “funnel” approach that seems to be standard in theory and praxis these days. However‚ it has been chosen
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Muay Thai Muay Thai is a combat sport that started from Thailand ’s martial arts which use a similar approach to boxing and or kickboxing with various techniques. It not only physically challenges the person‚ but it also shows mental control and discipline for the mind in combat knowing how to control the other person at all times. It is the one sport that requires no shoes or sneakers‚ with hands wrapped and boxing gloves on. The combat is known as “the art of eight limbs” or sometimes “science
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The Culture In Thailand Religion plays a very important role in the Thai society. Religion has helped mold the country it is today by creating freedom‚ individualism and liberal people in the Thai society. The national religion in Thailand is Buddhism of the Theravada tradition‚ however there is total religious freedom in Thailand and many other religious practices can be found. Thai Buddhism has changed over many years including many regional beliefs originating from animism as well as ancestor
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In Thailand‚ the growth of a transgendered female population has led the Thai culture to classify a third gender role‚ commonly termed ladyboys. The Thai language also uses the terms “kathoey” or “sao praphet song” (meaning ‘second kind of woman’) to categorize this gender role (Winter 2008‚ 47). A transgendered female is a born male who undergoes a male-to-female identity change. There is much discussion as to why a kathoey thinks of herself as a female even though she is in a male’s body. Though
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