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Competitive Dynamics in Home Video Games (B): Nintendo Power
By Peter J. Coughlan. 2001
Tells the story of Nintendo's revival of the home video game industry in the mid-1980s and its dominance of the…
market in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Strategic issues addressed include the creation of value by sparking dormant demand and the capture of value relative to other players in the industry including competitors, buyers, suppliers, and complementors. This is part of a case series examining the competitive dynamics in the home video game industry from 1970 into the new millennium. A rewritten version of an earlier case.Bullying At Work: How to Confront and Overcome It
By Andrea Adams. 1992
Through personal accounts and revelations, this book explores bullying at work and offers solutions to help overcome this stressful, often…
isolating experience facing many women and men. Based on three years of research, Andrea Adams plots the destructive forces currently eroding the professional lives of many people. By tracing the psychological origins of bullying at work this book investigates the effect of past relationships on the present, providing both individuals and organizations with a deeper understanding of why things can go so badly wrong. Through advice and guidance, it offers a way forward for all those who value the need for psychological well-being at the workplace.Project Management Manual
By H. Kent Bowen. 1996
A descriptive manual for how to manage the process of project management. Major sections are: 1) define and organize the…
project, 2) plan the project, and 3) track and manage the project. 12 processes are described in detail.Northco (A)
By Ananth Raman, Bowon Kim. 1996
A small school-uniform manufacturer wrestles with seasonal demand. The company is saddled with excess inventory when it is bought by…
a leveraged buyout firm. Students are required to identify ways to analyze and solve the problem.Medical Products Co.
By Robert H. Hayes. 1993
In early 1990, the company is contemplating changes in its European plant network for producing hypodermic products, including the total…
production capacity to be provided, the number and location of plants over which to spread this capacity, and which products should be allocated to various plants (and countries). After years of having too much capacity, the latest sales forecasts indicate that it will soon be running out of capacity, and the company has to decide how to react. In analyzing this decision, students are invited to review the decision-making processes that the company has followed in the past--and that have resulted in too much capacity and high manufacturing costs--and asked to propose changes in the way it approaches such decisions in the future.Measure of Delight: The Pursuit of Quality at AT&T Universal Card Services (A)
By Michael D. Watkins, Roy D. Shapiro, Susan Rosegrant. 1993
AT&T's Universal Card Services (UCS) has been extremely successful during its short lifetime. Dedicated to improving service quality and customer…
satisfaction, chief quality officer Rob Davis and his quality team have designed and put into place an unusual measurement and compensation system based on more than 100 performance measures monitored and communicated daily.Shouldice Hospital Ltd.
By James L. Heskett. 1983
Various proposals are set forth for expanding the capacity of the hospital. In assessing them, serious consideration has to be…
given to the culture of the organization and the importance of preserving it in a service delivery system. In addition to issues of capacity and organizational analysis, describes a well-focused, well-managed medical service facility that may well point the way to future economies in the field.Intellectual Property and Development
By Rami M. Olwan. 2012
The book examines the correlation between Intellectual Property Law - notably copyright - on the one hand and social and…
economic development on the other. The main focus of the initial overview is on historical, legal, economic and cultural aspects. Building on that, the work subsequently investigates how intellectual property systems have to be designed in order to foster social and economic growth in developing countries and puts forward theoretical and practical solutions that should be considered and implemented by policy makers, legal experts and the Word Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).National Cranberry Cooperative
By Jeffrey G. Miller, R. Paul Olsen. 1974
If you can point and click a mouse, type on a keyboard and have a basic grasp of the English…
language then you can make a fortune on the internet if you know what to do. This book will show you exactly what to do. You will learn how to: * Build a website and go live in 1 hour * Accept online payments and set up statements to track your income * Drive traffic to your site by getting your site listed instantly with the major search engines like Yahoo and Google. * Earn up to GBP10 per click every time someone clicks on your site * Earn up to GBP115 every time someone fills out a form on your site * Get other web publishers to sell your stuff *Create a database of readers you can profit from every time you update your site * Have a chat room, forum and video forum on your website for free * Automatically send out an email everyday with no input from you * Incorporate a search box on your site that makes you money every time someone searches * Add ready-made articles about your chosen subject to your site completely free - simply copy and paste!Building Business-Government Relations: A Skills Approach
By Montgomery Van Wart, Anna Ni. 2016
This book introduces business-government relations in the institutional context of the United States from a practitioner’s perspective. It provides the…
historical, descriptive, and comparative accounts of the public and private sectors, the different roles government plays with business, including several conceptual models to understand the social interactions between the two sectors, and various economic policies associated with business. Business-government relations are framed into three different social economic contexts: The sociopolitical arena, in which government’s role as agent of business, interest groups, and government’s limited role as social architect, are introduced. The local economic development, in which government acts as a promoter of, partner with, and buyer from, business. The global market, where government mainly plays a role as promoter of domestic business. In the course of discussion, a set of skills, such as searching government jobs, starting a business, analyzing stakeholders, ethical reasoning, advancing a business agenda, leveraging public resources, contracting with government, interpreting global trends, doing business abroad, and leveraging international resources, are introduced and exercised.US Airways (Images of Aviation)
By William Lehman. 2013
The history of US Airways begins in 1939 as All American Aviation, flying single-engine Stinson Reliant aircraft to carry mail…
under a contract by the US Postal Service. By 1953, All American became Allegheny Airlines with the goal to become one of America's premier airlines in the East. Allegheny grew by acquiring other airlines, the first being Lake Central Airlines in 1968, followed by Mohawk Airlines in 1972. In 1979, Allegheny became US Air to reflect the airline's desire to grow to the West Coast; this was followed by merging with PSA in 1988, Piedmont in 1989, Trump Shuttle in 1992, and America West in 2005. US Airways is now the fifth-largest airline in the United States, operating more than 2,000 flights daily. This book tells the story of the many men and women who transformed a small regional airline to become one of America's great success stories.How To Sell Your Business For the Price You Want
By Mark Blayney. 2009
Some people only ever sell their business once, usually when they are looking to retire. Others will find themselves selling…
their businesses a number of times during their careers as they move from one project to the next. But both types of people have one thing in common: they need to get the best deal possible out of the sale.This practical, commonsense book will help to secure the best result. Now updated and revised, it is in its 2nd updated edition. It offers first-hand advice on the whole sale process from deciding why and when to sell through getting the best sale to completing the deal. Charts and examples offer advice on essential legal, financial and strategic issues for all types of enterprises, however big or small your business.North Carolina Ski Resorts
By Donna Gayle Akers. 2014
During the early 1960s, local leaders in western and northwestern North Carolina were dedicated to developing winter recreational opportunities in…
the mountains. North Carolina's ski industry dates back to the winter of 1961-1962, when the Cataloochee resort in Maggie Valley developed the first ski slope in the state. Once thought impossible to make snow south of the Mason-Dixon Line, technological innovations in snowmaking allowed several other resorts to develop through the 1970s, including Appalachian Ski Mountain, Beech Mountain, Sugar Mountain, Wolf Ridge, and Ski Sapphire Valley, all of which still operate today. Images of smaller ski areas, such as Hound Ears, Seven Devils, and Mill Ridge, are featured to honor these now defunct clubs. Many of the present-day resorts have incorporated snowboarding, snowshoeing, ice-skating, and snow tubing, along with mountain biking trails for summer recreation on the slopes. North Carolina Ski Resorts showcases the rich recreational history of western and northwestern North Carolina.Working with Words in Business and Legal Writing
By Lynne Agress. 2002
Taking an error-avoidance approach, Agress (a writing workshop facilitator) provides a guide to the basics of writing in everyday business…
activities. She discusses common mistakes involving awkward sentences, jargon, grammar, punctuation and transit ions, active versus passive verbs, and structure and organization. She also offers advice on writing specifically related to marketing or technology. Annotation c. Book News, Inc. , Portland, OR (booknews. com)Recent increases in uncertainty and speed of market change are driving the adoption of new intelligent mobile office systems. Organizational…
information systems paradigm suggests that a right match between organizational characteristics and the use of technology is critical in producing desired results. Following such perspective this study focused on the relationship between task characteristics and the use of mobile office systems with an intention to find out factors that affect the adoption of modern mobile office systems. The research results show that in performing tasks with high mobility users tend to use extensive mobile office functions. When the task has a high level of interdependency with external business partners, users relied on specialized mobile functions such as FFA, SFA and ERP. Highly volatile environment with many unexpected task changes caused an extensive use of task specific functions that help to solve problems at hand. Further, analyses of the differences of mobile office use by department showed that sales department used more communication functions than others, while administrative departments rely more on such task specific functions as mobile CRM and KM than others. Additional case study shows how the application of new technology the effectiveness of organizational coordination. Based on the research the concept of convergent coordination is suggested as well as the direction for future research.With the end of the 1990s economic boom, The Race to the Bottom deftly explores how the United States has…
entered a no-win global competition in which the countries with the lowest wages, weakest workplace safety laws, and toughest repression of unions win investment from the U. S. and Europe. Tonelson analyzes how the entry of such population giants as China, India, and Mexico into the global market has accelerated the erosion of wages and labor standards around the world. And he describes how an ever-larger share of this low-wage competition is hitting not just sectors like apparel and toys, but also many of America's highest wage industries like aerospace and software. Tonelson explains why the re-education and retraining programs touted by many political leaders offer little but false hopes to most U. S. workers as he outlines the real decisions Washington needs to make to ensure long-term prosperity for the U. S. and the rest of the world. Updated with a new prologue from the author.The Future of Work in Information Society
By Andrzej Piotr Wierzbicki. 2016
This book investigates the questionas to whether technological developments will ultimately mean the end of workand, if so, what the…
consequences will be. The author addresses this questionfrom the perspective of a technologist well versed in econometrics and gametheory, and argues that it is not technology alone that could lead to the endof work, but its utilization by the capitalist system. Technology allows us tominimize the costs of work and increase profits, while the system is worseningunemployment, socio-economic inequality and stratification - which could lead tothe end of capitalism in a massive global revolution. Assuch, the book proposes an evolutionary reform based on a seemingly minor butin fact essential correction of the corporate income tax, which he proposesshould decrease in accordance with the percentage of the enterprise's revenuesexpended to pay employee salaries. In this way, entrepreneurs will be motivatedto implement new professions and occupations, as well as new workplaces. Onlyin this way, the book argues, can reforms be used to prevent the end of work,which would have catastrophic consequences.Evaluate the Alternatives: Finding the Value of Each Option
By Richard Luecke. 2004
Weighing the prospective merits of your alternatives is an important technique to use in making better decisions. Once you have…
identified a set of alternatives, the next step is to assess what each alternative contributes to the overall objective and how to prioritize the trade-offs. This chapter emphasizes that comparing important attributes of your alternatives is key to making better decisions.Context for Success: Setting the Stage
By Richard Luecke. 2004
Creating the right environment in which effective decisions can be made, otherwise known as the context, can sometimes be an…
uphill battle. This chapter illustrates why the right context is so important to decision making, and it explains why this is an important first step in making better decisions.