...effects of technology have largely been positive on human life. We have reached this modern era because of technology. The various technologies around us have made this world modern. In this modern life technological innovations have become integral to our lives Technological innovations are the most important aspect of human life and it is impossible to even think of our life without them. Technology is the greatest creation of humans and it has also enabled humans to create whatever they desire. I think that technology is indispensable in our modern life and it is a great positive force in our lives. The creativity in the field of technology has always resulted in remarkable innovations. We would not have reached such heights of development without the help of technology. Technology has influenced people in a positive sense. It has instigated people to create better and better innovations. We can never think of our lives without the basic amenities which technology has provided us with. Without such technology we would still be in the pre-historic age. We should be thankful to technology for our metamorphosis from a cave man to the modern man of present age. This modernism is the result of technology and it has made our life better and better with time. It is best tool that the humans have ever invented for self help. The technological inventions from a mixer grinder to the aircrafts have revolutionized the human life. Technology has aided the humans with the power to create anything...
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...Additionally, no one would be happy if they find out that gene patents were blocking them from the innovation that may help them from deadly disease. Back in the day “when SARS was spreading across the globe, medical researchers hesitated to study about it because of patent concerns”, (Crichton, 2007, p.442). As a result, SARS has killed millions people around the world because there is no effective anti- SARS vaccine. This is an obvious example to prove that gene patents not only inhibit research but also block innovation and put everyone all at risk, (Crichton, 2007). On the other side, Calfee (2009) emphasized that some tests were not developed until medical researchers invested their time, and companies that sponsor the researchers, invested the company’s money. Then, they should have the right to patent something that their investments went towards. For example, University of Utah and Myriad Genetics should be able to patent or co-own a diagnostic test for the BRCA-1 and BRCA-2 or breast cancer test because they invested their time and money to...
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...l Internal Analysis 1. Resources (what we have) ● Innovation P&G is widely recognized as the industry’s global innovation leader. We collaborate with a global network of research partners, and more than half of all product innovation coming from P&G today includes at least one major component from an external partner. Their contributions have consistently helped us earn honors from the IRI New Product Pacesetters Report—the annual list of the biggest innovations in our industry. Procter & Gamble was this year’s leader for the 2013 New Product Pacesetters list, launching seven of the top 10 most successful nonfood products of the year. Since the first Pacesetters list, P&G has had 155 products make the top 25 Pacesetters list in nonfood categories – more than our six largest competitors combined. ● Scale As one of the world’s largest consumer packaged goods companies, P&G has scale advantages across our brands, businesses, operations and people. This allows us to share knowledge, transfer technologies, optimize our spending and flow resources to better serve consumers and continuously improve our efficiency and productivity. ● Our unique organizational structure offers the global scale benefits of an international company and the local focus to be relevant for consumers in more than 180 countries. Our corporate structure and strong governance practices ensure that we conduct our operations with consistently high standards and integrity...
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...effects of technology have largely been positive on human life. We have reached this modern era because of technology. The various technologies around us have made this world modern. In this modern life technological innovations have become integral to our lives Technological innovations are the most important aspect of human life and it is impossible to even think of our life without them. Technology is the greatest creation of humans and it has also enabled humans to create whatever they desire. I think that technology is indispensable in our modern life and it is a great positive force in our lives. The creativity in the field of technology has always resulted in remarkable innovations. We would not have reached such heights of development without the help of technology. Technology has influenced people in a positive sense. It has instigated people to create better and better innovations. We can never think of our lives without the basic amenities which technology has provided us with. Without such technology we would still be in the pre-historic age. We should be thankful to technology for our metamorphosis from a cave man to the modern man of present age. This modernism is the result of technology and it has made our life better and better with time. It is best tool that the humans have ever invented for self help. The technological inventions from a mixer grinder to the aircrafts have revolutionized the human life. Technology has aided the humans with the power to create anything...
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...Five Every organization originally began because someone had a good mixture creativity and the entrepreneurial spirit. That same organization continues to exist due to creativity and innovation. Inside of a large organization exists several groups of people who are using these same ideas to create new projects and keep the organization alive. Chapter thirteen taught us about organizational innovation, intrapreneurs, or “entrepreneurs inside an organization who are responsible for the success of failure of a project” (Jones, 2013, pg. 392), and creativity and how they go hand in hand. Chapter fourteen taught us about the importance of conflict and how to manage it. It then went on to discuss how power and polices play into the organizational dynamic. “Innovation, intrapreneurship, and creativity are closely related concepts and each is vital to build a knowlegdge-creating organization” (Jones, pg. 408). There are two types of innovation, quantum and incremental. Quantum innovations allow an organization the opportunity to create new products and ideas. However, it’s the most risky due to cost and the likely hood of it increasing competition. Incremental innovation is updates to already existing products or technology. As a manager, it’s extremely important to know how to promote innovation. However, as a project manager or the person in charge of “leading and controlling a project so it results in the creation of effective new or improved products” (Jones, pg. 396), you must...
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...and in freedom from want and from fear. Empowering women is also an indispensable tool for advancing development and reducing poverty.One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman. No biological, psychological or economic fate determines the figure that the human female presents in society; it is civilization as a whole that produces the creature, intermediate between male and eunuch, which is described as feminine.Empowered women contribute to the health and productivity of whole families and communities and to improved prospects for the next generation. The importance of gender equality is underscored by its inclusion as one of the eight Millennium Development Goals. Gender equality is acknowledged as being a key to achieving the other seven goals Gender inequality holds back the growth of individuals, the development of countries and the evolution of societies, to the disadvantage of both men and women. Gender inequality and discrimination is argued to cause and perpetuate poverty and vulnerability in society as a whole. Household and intra-household knowledge and resources are key influences in individuals' abilities to take advantage of external livelihood opportunities or respond appropriately to threats. High education levels and social integration significantly improve the productivity of all members of the household and improve equity throughout society. Gender Equity Indices seek to provide the tools to demonstrate this feature of poverty. Discrimination against women...
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...organization within prescribed procedures and timetable. Performance Appraisal has been considered as the most significant and an indispensable tool for an organization, the information it provides is highly useful in making decisions regarding various personnel aspects such as promotion and merit increases. Performance measures also link information gathering and decision making processes which provide a basis for judging the effectiveness of personnel sub-divisions such as recruiting, selection, training and compensation. This research will concentrate on examining the effect of the performance appraisal on an individual as well as on the organizations. The sample size of 50 (employees) shall be chose within the organization. The data to use for the study shall be collected through the help of questionnaire and will be evaluated with the help of statistical tools. The research findings will show a noticeable effect of the performance appraisal on the organization as well as on the Individual. STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM All organization faces the problem of directing the energies of their staff to the task of achieving business goals and objectives. In doing so, organization need to develop means to influence and channel the behaviors of their employees to optimize their contributions. Performance appraisals constitute one of the major management tools employed in this process. Various strategies had been effectively used for the employee...
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...Introduction to business model innovation in mobility and automotive aspects The purpose of the following paper is to demonstrate the different possibilities of business model innovation in mobility and automotive aspects. More precisely, the written report focuses on business model innovation in respect of urban mobility. Since, urban mobility is getting more and more relevance of future management tasks. Moreover aspects of car sharing and renting cars are discussed in literature often. Therefore, the paper gives a detailed overview of the theoretical and practical background of business model innovations of urban mobility including automotive issues. The paper is structured in three main passages…. Mobility is a basic condition for participating in working life. Other relying aspects of mobility are engaging in social, cultural and political activities and availing educational opportunities. In the future, urban mobility will cost 829 billion euro by 2050. The amount of people and goods transported is expected to triple. On top of that, urban mobility will use 17.3 % of the planet´s bio – capacity (Lerner, 2011, pp. 1-15). The development of automotive issues and mobility reflects the economic, social and technical trends in the cities. The population of cities is constantly growing both for demographic reasons and migration into cities aspects. Cities are the central points of economic growth and thus of individual prosperity which lead to a growing differentiation...
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...Effectiveness Social Networking Sites as a Tool for Teachers-Students Interaction CHAPTER 1 THE PROBLEM AND REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE Introduction In these prevalent times, technology has been an indispensable component in the lives of the people. Part of the human interaction is engaged with the information society particularly the use of the Internet, computers and gadgets. The creation of the technologies facilitates the everyday undertakings of most of the people worldwide. The impact of technology in our modern lives has amassed to both advantages and disadvantages. While there may be a handful of negative effects but the positive influences are a great deal to maximize of, especially in the learning and education area. It is apparent that computers dominate a crucial part of our culture and more importantly to our education. Technology contributes to global development and diversity in classrooms and helps develop upon the fundamental building blocks needed for students to achieve more complex ideas. In order for technology be most impactful within the educational system, teachers and students must access to technology in a contextual matter that is culturally relevant, responsive and meaningful to their educational practice and that promotes quality teaching and active student learning. (wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_integration) In the Philippines, it has the highest number of Internet users in the 16 to 64 age group who join social networking groups...
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...to absorb and implement new ideas, but also some emerging developing countries, are taking measures to inspire entrepreneurship and innovation with purposes of benefiting economic development from these competitive advantages (Stoneman, 1995; Zhao, 2001). It is universally held that entrepreneurship and innovation are complementary and their combination can efficiently contribute to economy performance (Grupp, 2001; Stoneman, 1995). During the transfer from idea creation to eventually economy development, innovation is supposed to be a necessary condition, but it also demonstrates great insufficiency which can be completed by entrepreneurship’s mediating effects (Audretsch, 1995; Camp, 2005). This essay will primarily conduct a brief definition of entrepreneurship and innovation while introduce the role of problem solving and creativity, and thereby observe the synergy between entrepreneurship and innovation. Then theoretical and practical analysis will be made in their repective relationship with economy development. Ultimately, the holistic realtionship between entrepreneurship, in conjunction with innovation, and economy development will be discussed. Entrepreneurship and innovation are inclined to be misinterpreted identical since they both indicate creation and new development, but meanings they rootly represent are distinctive. Innovation is an instrument that intergrates, disperses and upgrades extant...
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...past. A past imbued with fear, pain and hardship, a meta-ethnic past that some long for and believe to have been a simpler time. The Personal Computer will someday become an invisible extension of our minds with no peripherals nor external hardware to obstruct the users from achieving their creative goals. From its beginning mechanical computers have frightened Humans who believed that they would be replaced by these thinking machines. The human beings mechanical mobility has evolved out of our spirits need to interact with the universe and the next step, the one that frees mankind from physical limitations will be the use of machines that will be ubiquitous, in effect, working as natural extensions of the body. The continuous innovations in electronics are making more and more components ubiquitous. The convergence of man and machine requires that computers become an integral part of the human body. The hurdles are many and those in opposition of such a world are afraid that these changes can only come about with the sacrifice of the soul. The last huddle that will stand in mans way of a true Man-Machine interface may well be one of posed by the threat that others may seek to control the machine portion and enslave mankind as mindless cyber-men. How did these fears of mechanical computers, these thinking machines, replacing Humans get started and fears founded in reason? Human computers have been used by government and business since the dawn of the man to calculate...
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...1. What challenges does Thomas Schmall face upon becoming CEO of Volkswagen do Brasil (VWB)? Thomas Schmall was appointed as CEO by VWAG in 2007, but he already knew the business, because he had subsequently held different managerial positions in the company in different countries (South Africa, China and Mexico). He did not want to continue VWB’s strategy of cost reduction, capacity downsizing and employee layoffs. With the model of the German technology in mind to produce small, reliable vehicles, he had the vision to format a high performance team and let VWB become the automotive industry leader in sales, profitability, quality and innovation in a sustainable way. From 1999 until 2007, VWB faced a declining market share and financial losses, so Schmall and his new VWB management team started to introduce the balance scorecard. One of the main challenges of this introduction was to create a high performance spirit and to introduce the different aspects of the balanced scorecard internally. VWB also struggled continuing their export-led strategy and keeping their production minimum due to the Brazilian currency, relative to the euro and the dollar along with rising labor and material costs. Due to stiff competition in the auto industry world-wide, VWB faced the problem that they could not increase prices on shipped products. This resulted in excessing capacity costs and these would not be covered by the insufficient export margins. Although this was a challenge for Thomas...
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...1 3. SWOT ANALYSIS OF THE COMPANY IN RELATION TO INNOVATION 2 4. DESCRIPTION OF WHAT AN INNOVATION AUDIT ENTAILS 3 5. PROPOSED FRAMEWORK FOR CONDUCTING THE INNOVATION AUDIT 4 6. RESEARCH STRATEGY 5 7. OUTLINE OF KEY OUTPUTS ARISING FROM THE PROPOSED AUDIT 7 8. TIMEPLAN AND RESOURCES 7 9. CONCLUSION 7 10. BIBLIOGRAPHY 8 1. INTRODUCTION One would like to take this opportunity to thank the company “Urban Outfitters Inc.” for inviting me to conduct this innovation audit. It is with great pleasure and intrigue that one immerses oneself in the innovative aspects of your company and seek ways to improve the overall success of your establishment. The audit will be conducted over an extended period, as yet to be outlined. In order to establish a thorough audit one will conduct assessments and surveys in most of the company’s UK, Ireland, European stores and the head office headquarters in Oxford Street. Before one begins it must be outlined why one believes that this innovation audit will significantly improve the prosperity of this company: Innovation has become one of the key business progressions to deliver sustainable competitive advantage. It is a complex process, one easily identified as being of critical eminence for organisational success yet not easily controlled. The successful management of innovation delivers value to end users, meeting business and organisational objectives and visions. Innovation is the lifeblood of any business. It prevents a business...
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...Chapter 1 – Organizational Behavior and Opportunities Facebook: Opportunities, Problems, and Ambitions Organizational Behavior Sep 15 ‘2013 1 Chapter 1 – Organizational Behavior and Opportunities Overview Facebook, a social network, is an exceptional case of success and is changing not only the business scenario, but also habits of million people around the world. Besides all the transformations already implemented, that changed the habits of million people, they have audacious plans to keep implementing changings and innovations that may affect users’ behavior and innumerous business in the future. With all these phenomenal growth, also started to surge questions about how Facebook is handling the entire database from million users, all the personal information they have access in their severs and the fact they were stimulating their public to input additional content and how it was being used to increase, even more, their revenue with on line advertising. 2 Chapter 1 – Organizational Behavior and Opportunities Questions 1. How does Facebook’s privacy management of users’ personal information affect the behavior of Facebook patrons? The Facebook’s...
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...Victoria University Strategic Use of ERP Systems KHALED EL HAKIM Paul Hawking BCO6615 5-04-2014 INTRODUCTION Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system involves the use of multiple software modules that are transaction based to help an organization manage its business operations. It integrates organization's processes into a single solution through the centralization of a database of all the functional areas of the business. This system is now applicable not only to the enterprise-sized companies, but also smaller growing businesses and mid-sized established organizations. Most companies have customized systems to fit their desired business goals. ERP remains one of the most preferred solutions for most organizations; however, other alternative systems like SAP are also available with unique features and qualities. Organizations spend a lot on extensive research to improve these systems in an effort to achieve their desired goals (Su, Y-fen & Yang, 2010, 76). However, less has been undertaken to improve ERP to achieve competitive dominance in the market. This essay examines the possible, the possible ways by which a company can effectively use ERP to achieve dominance in the competitive market. The paper also highlights some of the case studies of companies that have proven the capability of ERP to achieve competitive differentiation on situations of similar business processes and availability of alternative technologies. Customization Several studies carried...
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