DREAM DEFFERED: THE STORY OF A HIGH-TECH ENTREPRENEUR IN A LOW-TECH WORLD INTERNATIONALIZATION OF SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISES MIDTERM 2011 PREPARED BY: LAURA PLANTJE PREPARED FOR: ERNESTO TAPIAS-MOORE MARCH 9‚ 2011 INTRO: Monique Maddy is a Harvard Business School graduate turned visionary entrepreneur who founded Adesemi Communications International. Adesemi was supposed to revolutionize the information technology sector in her home continent of Africa‚ by enabling thousands of
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Pre-reading Reading: “3M Post-It Notes: A Managed or Accidental Innovation?” As you read this case story‚ think about the following two questions: 1. What were the critical factors that enabled 3M Post-it Notes to be successfully commercialized and what can we generalize about managing the innovation process from this case history? 2. What were the critical roles performed by some of the key individuals‚ including Silver‚ Oliveira‚ Nicholson‚ Fry‚ and Ramey? 1 33 3M’s Post-it Notes: A Managed
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Project Management Case Study Read the following case and provide a minimum of three reasons why problems occurred on this project‚ and what should have been done to prevent these occurrences. Problem and Associated Reason #1. _______________________________________________ Action(s) to prevent Problem #1.__________________________________________________ Problem and Associated Reason #2. _______________________________________________ Action(s) to prevent Problem #2.__________________________________________________
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Nakeina Sheppard D.marshall Dre-098 September 30‚ 2014 High Tech Trash How many high tech items does each family have in their homes? The average family has at least six high tech items their households. These items include cell phones‚ computers‚ games systems and much more. Many families take advantage of newer versions of these high tech items. Instead of keeping the old items and buying the new ones‚ families partake of something called e-waste. E-waste is old electronic waste. There
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A & D Table of Contents |Content | |Page | |Executive Summery | |3 | |Situation Analysis | |3 | |Problems Found in Situation Analysis | |4 | |Strategic Alternatives for Solving
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QUESTION 1. What are the two approaches governments use to define high-tech? What are their strengths and weaknesses. Answers : High-tech means stylistic term applied to the expressive use of modern technology‚ industrial components‚ equipment or materials in the design of architecture‚ interiors and furnishings. There are two approaches governments use to define high-tech which is input-based definition and output-based definition. The input-based definitions is based on criteria such as
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Using high technology methods in the process of education is a serious matter that a lot of people argue about it‚ some agree and the others disagree with it. Although it provides the education with a lot of futures that makes it better than the past. It also has some disadvantages that reflect on this process. But they think that old methods that were applied in the classrooms have more benefits than that high tech ones. And some people also consider that these new technology may change the role
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We live in a technologically advanced world. Wherever we look‚ we will see people holding what ever technological gadget they own. Professionals and students use their laptops for typing down documents‚ children use their tablets for playing games‚ and teenagers use their smart phones to send each other text messages and voice notes. With the rapid expansion of technology‚ the spread of information has been easier and everyday activities are made simpler. New gadgets come out almost every year
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Case #3 A&D High Tech (A): Managing Projects for Success: A Negative View 1. What is the estimated project completion date? (Assume there are no holidays and ignore the sunk cost of the planning team’s effort) The estimated project completion date is TUE 11/13/13 with duration of 127 days. After leveling and re-allocating work along the project line‚ the project got delayed for 3 days so that the completion day moved up to FRI 11/21/13 (total duration of 130 days). (MS Project 2007) 2.
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The first category of new high-tech methods is information technologies. This consists of computers‚ the internet‚ e-mail‚ and social networking sites. Cyberterrorism has become a central feature in many of the terrorist cells and groups. “Today‚ almost all active terrorist organizations (which number more than forty) maintain websites‚ and many organizations maintain more than one website and use several different languages‚” (Weimann‚ 2004). According to a study done by the United States Institute
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