...Architecture and the Environment Monica Diaz PSY/460 Carlos Guzman September 17, 2012 Architecture and the Environment Human beings respond to their environment in different ways. What is seen and perceived affects the behavior that is exuded. This is true for architectural design and physical structure. In fact, architectural design can control human behavior. Architects build structures and place them strategically in order to respond to human needs. For example, a playground or supermarket’s design is a direct layout of what the architect wants the individual to experience. Commercial and residential design plays a major role in a person’s life; therefore these structures are built with considerations of the general public. For example, an office building that has handicapped access and parking lot with handicapped spaces, are placed to provide convenience to those in need of it. With building and design it is also important to create sustainable development. Sustainable development now will promote better days for the future. It’s never too late to think ahead. Physical structure on human behavior "For architects and their buildings to be taken seriously, buildings must be imbued with the power to make a difference to their inhabitants" (Kraftl & Adey, 2008). The job of an architect is one of grave importance. Their creations create change. Buildings, homes, parks all create a mental effect on a person...
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...But the visibility is nothing shy of vague. Paul Goldberger, an architecture critic for the New Yorker, published the book: “Why Architecture Matters”...
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...a lot. Many new market competitors, such as Fuji, have lunched many new products. Our market power and market value was deeply weakened by these new competitors and their new products. The failure of power-decentralized plan and MAPP also proofed that we have to make big changes. Here is my analysis and suggestion: 1. The key of our success is creativity 2. The key of our revival is to regain our creativity 3. To regain our creativity, we have to: * Create an organic management system * Create an open organization culture to encourage creativity * Recreate the Salary system I believed that my analysis could be very helpful for you to redesign our future plan. I hope that this analysis could bring you some different thinking. The Key Factors that Initially Made us Successful ： 1. Creativity For any innovative industry, creativity is one of the most important key factors to success. For many years, we have been ranked as the top company in film industry because of our creativity. Creativity and innovation would give us better product and better service than our competitors. In other word, creativity and innovation are our core competiveness. To become as successful as we were, we have to regain our core competiveness. 2. Market coverage We used to have the highest market share and market coverage in the industry. We have thousands stores overall the world. Our leading market coverage would help have better customer resources than others. We...
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...Qn1. Explain how the development of strategy at the LEGO Group reflect the key characteristics of strategic management The LEGO Group has a very rich and proud history that span nearly over 100 years. The LEGO Group’s core success would be their traditional yet innovative toy ‘brick’. This brick is so popular till date mainly due to its unique interlocking principle that offers unlimited building possibilities. It encourages one’s mind to be creative and allow the imagination to keep going. Qn2. Features of the external environment that influenced strategy development at the LEGO Group Qn3. Resources and competences of the LEGO Group that enabled them to regain their successful position in the global toy market Lego has managed to regain successful position in the global toy market through having capable human resources and financial resources as well as having the competency in creativity, innovation and quality control. Capable human resources Lego’s Chief executive recognized and acknowledged the problems LEGO are facing. * Kids were getting older younger and leaving Lego sooner. * The channel has changed. Companies, like Toys 'R Us and Walmart, that sell Lego had become more sophisticated. * Many of Lego's patents had expired leading to increased competition. * Rivals were outsourcing productivity to China and other, cheap economies whereas Lego was based in Denmark. * Lego needs to reduce debt, increase growth and to improve profitability...
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...Who Killed Creativity? When people hear the word creative there is an automatic assumption that creativity is completely linked to art. Based on this idea, many people with skills or interests that are not directly related to art usually say they are not creative. That is not entirely true. The ability to be creative is in each of us because creativity is not always related to the arts. Creativity is the ability to find new ways and new solutions to the same circumstances. Since we are children, we are curious beings by nature. We were born creative, imaginative, and with original ideas. Unfortunately, as we grow up, we lose that wonderful gift with which we are born. Why? Because education and creativity goes hand in hand. The education system kills the creativity of people...
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...heavily relies on creativity and imagination can use IT and KM to implement not just the business strategies, but also become an integral part of each and every component of the organization. From developing a knowledge repository called Cirque Memory which could be accessed in five different languages to organising a Virtual Talent Scout using interactive web experience to recruit the artists, the business management and IT team were able to embed even the most creative and artistic life cycles into an enterprise IT system. The IT team was able to implement a modular architecture wherein applications developed for different business processes could talk to each other through independent platforms and data flow, and made numerous tasks in the company more efficient. One example which we found truly intriguing was the casting department application which helped the team to find suitable replacement for an injured artist using another application called MediCirque. The level of competency of the IT team and its alignment with the organisation is evident from the fact that they were able to move the entire tour setup from one place to another within 30 hours without any technological constraints. Imagine a mini village consisting of 150 people and all of the technological need being uprooted entirely and then moved to a different place without any major glitches. Having the capability to do all that without deviating from the core aspect of the company which is creativity proves that the...
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...in terms of innovation. The company capitalizes on this reputation by updating their product lines yearly. This strategy leverages its unique ability through in-house hardware development and proprietary software architecture, allowing them more control from initial development all the way to end-user relations. Nokia’s business strategy markets it as a company dedicated to creating connections between the people of the world, literally and figuratively. Their goals are to dominate the global market in mobile phone sales, develop proprietary consumer Internet services, accelerate adoption of business solutions, and leverage scale and establish new corporate infrastructure. Their strategy hopes to communicate with the consumer in a way that assures consumer understanding, brand loyalty, innovation and architecture, as well as develops distribution channels and a growing supply chain. Though intuition, creativity, and spontaneity are all ingredients of successful strategies, systematic analysis is a vital input into the strategy process, Without analysis, strategic decisions are susceptible to power battles, individual whims, fads and wishful thinking. Concepts, theories, and analytic tools are complements, not substitutes for experience, commitment, and creativity. They serve to provide frameworks for organization discussion, processing information and...
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...6 | DESIGN PHILOSOPHY | 4 | 7 | THE TEAM OF CREATORS | 4 | 8 | COLLABORATIONS FOR A DIFFERENCE | 6 | 9 | FACILITIES USED BY THE FIRM | 6 | 10 | FEATHERS IN THE CAP | 6 | 11 | CUSTOMER IS THE KING | 7 | 12 | NEED AND NECESSITY FOR ORGANISATIONS | 8 | 13 | WHY LOTUS | 9 | 14 | STRATEGIES ADOPTED | 9 | 15 | COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE | 10 | 16 | PRODUCT/SERVICE LIFE-CYCLE | 11 | 17 | BRAND LEADERS | 11 | 18 | REASONS BEHIND THE SUCCESS: CLIENTS TO BRICKLAYERS | 11 | 19 | SWOT ANALYSIS | 16 | 20 | CONCLUSION | 17 | 21 | REFERENCES | 18 | A Study on Lotus Design Studio Driven by passion If you find yourself admiring a building’s bas-relief, the perfect curve of an archway, or the magnificence of a skyscraper, architecture may be your calling. Simply put, architects design buildings. From Rome’s Colosseum to New York’s Empire State Building, great architects have left their marks on history. Creation is a powerful skill, an intriguing ability evolving from our originalities and perspectives. By formulating our own unique creations, we may endeavour to create a parallel between our imagination and the world in which we live. Winston Churchill once emphasised the fact that "we shape our buildings, thereafter they shape us". In my mind, these buildings personify and embody the diverse cultures that exist...
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...NAME: RINITA MALWANKAR SUBJECT: INDIAN MANAGEMENT THOUGHT & PRACTICES - PROF- R.V.NHAWKAR DECLARATION I Rinita Malwankar the student of K. G. Joshi and N. G. Bedekar College, T.Y. BMS (VIth semester), hereby declare that I have completed this project on Creativity (Indian Management Thoughts & Practices) for the academic year 2009-2010. This information submitted is true & original to the best of my knowledge. Date: Student signature, (Rinita Malwankar) ACKNOWLEDGEMENT I take an opportunity to express my earnest gratitude and extreme joy at being bestowed with an opportunity to get an interesting project. I am extremely thankful to PROF- R.V.NHAWKAR for giving me an opportunity to work on such an interesting project on Creativity. Last but not the least I would like to thank all the people who directly or indirectly, knowingly or unknowingly supported us for this project. Also I owe my success and achievement to my parents and friends. TOPIC: Creativity INTRODUCTION Creativity is a mental process involving the discovery of new ideas or concepts, or new associations of the existing ideas or concepts, fueled by the process of either conscious or unconscious insight. From a scientific point of view, the products of creative thought (sometimes referred to as divergent thought) are usually considered to have both originality and appropriateness. Although intuitively a simple phenomenon...
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...which we live; epitomizing Winston Churchill's quote -"we shape our buildings, thereafter they shape us". With this letter, I hereby wish to state my interest and appreciation for the opportunity to apply for the challenging yet interesting Master degree program in Architecture at the Dessau International Architecture Graduate School – DIA. / My application for the challenging yet interesting Master degree in Architecture at the Dessau International Architecture Graduate School – DIA stems from the internationalist perspective and desire to study at one of the best universities in Germany. Today I perceive that life for me has been a process of conscious evolution. As I embark a new stage of my life, I believe that a postgraduate study will provide a milestone in my career along with indispensable experiences that will allow me to become a successful, innovative...
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...and society in Europe during the middle ages was based around the feudal system. (Eco, U. (1986). Because Christianity played an important role during the Middle Ages, early Christian art icons were popular such as images of Christ, the Virgin Mary or saints. Also popular were illuminated manuscripts that were of a religious nature. Because of the radiant glow created by the gold, silver, and other colors that were used, these handwritten and decorated or painted texts were called illuminations. These were still being created in the Middle Ages. Architecture of the Middle Ages also focused on a Christianity theme. Two styles of architecture introduced during the Middle Ages, included the Romanesque and Gothic style. (MindEdge, 3.11). Romanesque style elements included massive doors, bronze baptismal fonts, wall-sized painting, and objects in gold and silver. Some other characteristics of Roman Architecture, besides massive structures, were small windows, thick walls, and rounded arches. Romanesque style...
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...Failing Schools: A New Approach Elizabeth Thorup PSY: 370 Learning and the Brain Kelly Wells October 3, 2011 Education has always been considered to be a process where important information is transmitted to students by an educator. It has always been the main focus of schools to develop a curriculum that enables the educator to do this. The curriculum is based upon what we as a society see as important topics to develop students into productive successful adults. In some cases, this way of thinking has merit; however, it is not successful for many types of students. Testing students to see what level of intelligence they possess is often inaccurate, and reaching out to students that have different perspectives of learning that may be more creative or just different than the average person is a very important matter to consider when developing a strategy to teach and present the curriculum. Schools that often have very low test scores and are considered unsuccessful or failing for that matter could benefit greatly by adjusting their teaching methods into more brain based learning. Schools today are often based upon ideas or curriculum that is very old fashioned. New methods are rarely explored. Most of this is due to expense, but by bettering the education system of today, it is much more likely that future generations will become more productive and happy thriving adults which will in turn better the future for everyone. This is an investment that should not be taken...
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...Analyzing Managerial Decisions: Eastman Kodak by HCM-540, MBOL5, Health Care Organization Instructor: Saint Leo University Distance Learning November 24, 2013 1) What factors motivated Kodak to change its organizational architecture? There were several factors that persuaded Kodak to make changes to its organizational architecture in 1984. Kodak had come to the conclusion that its present organizational architecture did not fit the current business environment for the industry. The biggest factor that persuaded Kodak to make a change was the growing competition in the industry and losing the dominance it once had in the film market. The emergence of new product being made by Fuji Corporation dwindled away their market share. In the early 1980’s, Kodak saw their share price drop from a high of $85 to a low of $71 in 1984. This was cause for change to its organizational architecture. In order to stop the bleeding, Kodak realized it had to restructure and react quickly. With developing technology, Kodak was losing ground fast and was no longer the conglomerate it once was. 2) What mistakes did Kodak make in changing its architecture? Kodak was faced with trying to regain market share. It needed to quickly make changes to respond to shareholders concerns. There were obvious advances in technology that concerned Kodak. Kodak restructured creating 17 new business units with profit-loss responsibilities. Unit leaders were given increase decision-making...
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...Arts and Culture Josh Whatcott Arts/125 December 08, 2014 Kristin Hunt Arts and Culture Culture and Art are valued terms which should not be separated as they are deeply intertwined with one another. Art is creation, quality, realm, and appearance based on aesthetics of beauty, or out of the ordinary. Art comes in a wide variety of facets such as painting, theatre, music, dance, and other visual abstract art. With developing technology, values are changing and thus creating an increase in multiculturalism. Artwork maintains to focus on culture heritage, therefore creating an emotional approach on the viewer providing an understanding of differences. Art has a significant impact on my life especially through music and the love of tattoos. Making music involves your voice, fingers, playing an instrument, and the brain. Individuals involved in music use their ears, eyes, and tap into multiple skills others may not experience outside of music. It truly is a work of art and brings me so much joy. Being a man of many tattoos there is always argument whether tattooing is art. Tattooing is now recognized by the U.S. government as an art form and a profession. It is now that tattoo related art can be implemented in a museum, gallery, or educational institutions across the U.S.A. Tattooing has been around for years and continues to illustrate the relationship between art and American culture. Technology continues to evolve our lives and the globe that exists around us...
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...The two types of functional silos serve the needs of a department but in two different ways. Organizational functional silos are independent unit and the changes that made in these silos not allowed to be shared between other departments. IS functional silo is different because there is no online sharing of data.. 3. Compare and contrast centralized, decentralized, and distributed IT architectures. Which do you think is most appropriate for ERP and why? Centralized systems are based on servers and mainframes, where all the data, software, and resources are stored on the server and are accessed via dumb terminal computers, that is nothing is really stored on the satellite computers. In Decentralized System we have multiple computers with the information and software they need, this gives them full control over what takes place, but may lead to less real time cooperation. Finally, distributed architecture is a combination of both centralized and decentralized architectures with their own applications and tools.I think the most appropriate system for ERP is the distributed architecture because it combine both centralized and decentralized, and boasts better data consistency and integrity. 4. List the horizontal and vertical levels of systems that exist in organizations. -Vertical Levels of systems (going down) •Strategic Management •Tactical Management...
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