ASOCIO Policy Paper CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY Date: June 2004 Table of Contents 1 CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY ........................................................... 2 1.1 What is corporate social responsibility? ........................................................ 2 1.2 Asia Pacific Perspective ................................................................................ 2 1.3 Corporate Social Responsibility: Unlocking the value................................... 3
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MANAGING WORKFORCE DIVERSITY AT IBM: A GLOBAL HR TOPIC THAT HAS ARRIVED J. T. (Ted) Childs Jr. To be successful, global companies must continue to look toward the future, and CEOs, senior line and HR management, and diversity leaders play a key role in that process. Workforce diversity cannot be delegated; it must be a partnership. Although the HR team plays the key staff role, total delegation from the top, without active involvement, is a recipe for failure. IBM considers diversity a business
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thinking about implementing a drive-through pick-up stations to allow online consumers to collect their online orders immediately from their neighborhood Wal-Mart. Entering another joint venture with potential success Wal-Mart has collaborated with America Online (AOL). This alliance will permit Wal-Mart to build its strengths by providing customers with a low-price internet device, with no access to its own site and services of AOL. Specifically, penetrating the mass-market through the Internet,
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_______________________ Introduction During the 1970s and ‘80s, IBM was one of the most successful companies in the world. The company had experienced strong growth in both revenue and profits and had a virtual stranglehold on the market for mainframe computers. In fact the company was often referred to as “Big Blue,” a nickname derived from its massive blue mainframe computers. For four consecutive years in the 1980s, IBM held the top spot in Fortune magazine’s annual list of the most admired
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cowboys-and-Indians movie. It was the 1990s, the dot-com market was booming, and he was a senior manager for IBM, helping to oversee its emerging e-commerce business. "I had a whole team with me and a budget of about $8 million," Cohen recalled. "We were competing head-to-head with Microsoft, Netscape, Oracle, Sun-all the big boys. And we were 82 playing this very big-stakes game for e-commerce. IBM had a huge sales force selling all this e-commerce software. One day I asked the development director
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............................................................................................. 2 SWOT Analysis.......................................................................................................... 5 Global Market and Challenges................................................................................. 7 Industry Analysis…………........................................................................................... 9 Competitor Analysis………….............
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IBM Global Technology Services Thought Leadership White Paper Cloud Computing Defining a framework for cloud adoption How common ground can help enterprises drive success with cloud computing2 Defining a framework for cloud adoption Contents 1 Introduction 3 Looking at cloud computing across two dimensions 3 Cloud delivery models 7 Cloud service types 8 Roles in cloud consumption and delivery 10 Challenges and considerations 11 Summary Introduction With the many widely discussed advantages
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Ghemawat’s “AAA” Global Strategy Framework Ghemawat so-called AAA framework offers three generic approaches to global value creation. Adaptation strategies strategies that seek to increase revenues and market share by tailoring one or more components of a firm’s business model to suit local requirements or preferences. Aggregation strategies focus on achieving economies of scale or scope by creating regional or global efficiencies; they typically involve standardizing a significant portion of the
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A common cross-cultural challenge in managing across cultures is language barriers. If managers are working in another country that does not speak English, the manager will have a hard time effectively communicating with his staff. As a result, now many international companies communicate internally through the English language. Managers are able to communicate with their foreign counterparts through speech and text with English. However, there are many times when the manager will still be forced
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ESSAY Part1 Over the years, with globalization and expansion of business activities throughout the world, with global financial issues added, it is now becoming important for organizations and companies to expand their horizon in terms of the way they function and the resources they employ/ need to employ to be able to work as a viable and profitable business. Due to these changes, the skills and knowledge held by employees in organizations become outdated, and companies have to rethink how they
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