the importance of innovation are independent of one another. 2. Flexible manufacturing technologies have increased the importance of production economies of scale. 3. Innovation and new technology have led to longer product life cycles as better quality products are being produced. 4. The increased pace of innovation has only had a negligible effect on market segmentation and product obsolescence. 5. Slow innovation results in diminishing margins and product obsolescence.
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Melvin L 28 September 2013 Problem-Posing: Solution to “Narration Sickness” Paulo Freire says teachers are narrators that only feed students information. The students act like containers‚ turning into receptacles that the only way taught are by being filled with what the teachers tell them or narrates to them (Freire 1). This is why education suffers from narration sickness. Throughout the years many teachers around the world have been applying the “Banking concept” towards the way they teach
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Investment Banking in 2008 Group Report 1. Failure Analysis: Identify the major factors that contributed to Bear Stearns’s failure? Who stood to benefit from its implosion? How did Bear Stearns’s collapse differ from the ‘Long Term Capital Management’ failure a decade earlier? What could Bear Stearns have done differently to avoid this fate? In the early 2000’s? And during the summer of 2007? And during the week of March 10‚ 2008? (1) Identify
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Innovation is the creation of better or more effective ideas‚ methods‚ or services. Technological change spurs economic growth and general well-being by enabling better utilization of existing resources and by bringing about new and better products. Technological change can spur economic growth by bringing about better use of existing resources‚ new and better products. Change can bring about uncertainty and resistance. In a world where innovation and change is the norm‚ to excel. Innovation has
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competing heavily with integrated mills such as USX. USX responded by closing or selling eight of inefficient facilities and restructuring its remaining manufacturing facilities to focus on hot-and-cold rolled sheet‚ strip and tin products rather than a larger range of products which it had done in the past. Additionally‚ USX invested over $2 billion to improve its processes to become one of the‚ if not the‚ most efficient steel manufacturer in the world by improving labor efficiency from 11 man hours
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released. The victim impact statement assists the judge when he or she decides what sentence the defendant should receive. Although the judge will decide the defendant’s sentence
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Alpha Corporation I) For each of the years on the Statement of Cash Flows: Year 1989 1. Major sources of cash = Long-‐term debt and short-‐term debt. Major use of cash = Investment in depreciable assets. 2. Cash flow from operation was greater than net income as the firm
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Types of Cheque Crossing/ Types Of Cross Cheque: General crossing Special crossing Restrictive crossing General Crossing: A cheque is said to be crossed generally when it bears across its face any of the following: Two transverse(cross) parallel lines. Two transverse parallel lines with the word “And Company” or “And Co”. Two transverse parallel lines with any abbreviation of the word “& Company”. Two transverse parallel lines with the words “Not Negotiable”. Two transverse parallel lines
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As a start-up company we‚ “Closures-R-Us”‚ decide to apply market/demand pull which consult what consumers needs‚ rather than technology push where producing without measure consumer needs. We are producing our product (closure that can be easily open by old peoples) based on population facts of the world. We observed‚ researched and discovered that world population is shifting slightly towards old population from young generation as seen in the above figure. There are obvious declining birth
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disruptive innovation. Disruptive innovation was coined by Clayton Christensen. It explains the process of a product or service preliminary application initiating from the bottom of the market that replaces an already established product or service. (????) This theory has created a significant impact on management practices in all types of industries. It has created debates of how “executives and managers are in need of research that will elevate the pursuit of successful innovations from a gut-level
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