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- 2131: In Search Of Excellence
- ... Excellence was the 1982 best-selling look at excellent companies and an attempt to identify the attributes they had in common that helped to make them successful. Thomas Peters and Robert Waterman studied dozens of American companies and deemed these companies to be excellent: Bechtel, Boeing, Caterpillar, Dana, Johnson & Johnson, Hewlett-Packard, Delta, Fluor, IBM, Procter and Gamble, McDonalds, 3M, Digital Equipment and Emerson Electric. The book gives many anecdotes describing ... their competitors, is remarkable. The eight practices work because they make great sense. These basics are not new or untested, but managers have merely ignored the following practices. A Bias For Action The authors describe American companies as limited by structures which hinder action. Extraordinary effort was seen when a worker was given even a small measure of control over his destiny. He then has a bias for getting things done ... to adapt to a more rapidly changing world. Past insights are a necessity because they teach us something about how to create a more successful future. However, hindsight also shows us that the information technology revolution was dramatically underestimated at the time this book was written. In addition, the Internet likely had a significant impact on the potential of a global market for companies. It would be quite interesting to ...
- 2132: The Movie Industry Analysis
- ... worldwide gross revenues generated by motion pictures in all territories and media (including music and ancillaries) amounted to over $40 billion. These figures were only a fraction of total entertainment outlays worldwide, spent mostly on American-made movies. Over 70% of the population rents or goes to movies regularly, this accounts for over 1.5 billion movie attendance's each year in the United States. Strategic Issues: 1) "Blockbuster-ability", or ... ten years there has been an overall increase of at least 30% in many ancillary markets and over 200% in the case of home video. Today much of the world is undergoing a mass communications revolution; hence, new movie markets such as home video, cable and pay-per-view have been growing so rapidly that they are no longer just ancillary markets to the basic theatrical market but have become basic ... release does well domestically, it becomes popular in foreign markets, particularly in Europe. All of this popularity and success internationally has not come without a price. Some countries began to complain about the spread of American culture due to the movie industry. In order to soothe these complaints, Disney and Miramax announced in October 1994 the creation of a company to promote the distribution of French films in the United ...
- 2133: Engineers: The Builders of Tomorrow
- Engineers: The Builders of Tomorrow “Computer technology is altering the form, nature, and future of the American economy.”(McConnell, 3) Computers of today has grown and evolved with time. From the very first ENIAC computer to the Pentium Processors of today, computers have come a long way. “ENIAC was as big as ... better for us to live in. Engineering is a way of expressing ones creativeness. Such as in the University of Massachusetts, Engineers there are finding ways to make computers nicer when frustration is detected.(Scientific American, 35) “Remember that pudgy kid in the eight grade who likes to concoct bombs in his mothers kitchen? Now he's one of America's premiere software designers.”(Alpert, 87) Today, Computer Engineering is the ... that change is a part of this industry. Change is essential for advancement and new programs etc. “For the country and the consumer…Most experts feel we stand at the halfway mark of the chip revolution, and that Moore's Law could hold for another fifteen years—Perhaps 10 more doublings of chips per year.”(Life, 32) Moore's law is referring to the rate that the speed of the ...
- 2134: The Software Industry Report
- ... capital value of the firm or the turnover by merger or internal expansion. 4.2 The Threat Microsoft and its empire is under threat. The two major threats being: 1. Netscape Communication - with the Internet revolution. 2. Sun Micosystems - the inventor of the new programming language for the Internet called Java. 4.2.1 The Internet is basically a way of linking multimedia documents around the world over a massive network of computers, and the revolution is expected to alter the software industry radically. The Internet can be seen as a completely different market which, by nature is far more contestable and completely separate from the market dominated by Microsoft (see ... growth among the 50 elite vendors running at a healthy 28%? and only a handful of companies reporting operating losses, there is much scope for optimism in the software market. I. Hoover’s Handbook of American Business, 1996 II. The Independent on Sunday 22.11.98 Snipes and Sniggers at the House that Bill built David Usbourne III. Computer Business Review CBR Software top 50 October 1998 IV. Investors Chronicle ...
- 2135: The History of Linen Manufacturing
- ... was allowed to expand into the most important industry of that time in Scotland. With the advances in agriculture, Scotland was moving away from living at the subsistence level and moving along into the agrarian revolution. This allowed for urbanisation and greater numbers of labourers. Since the farm no longer needed as many workers to survive, people had to find other means of work. This allowed for the availability of cheap ... and Austrian Silesias. To address this problem the Board 'caused patterns of the different sorts of coarse Linens made in the manufacturing countries of the Continent, and most in demand for low uses in the American Plantations', to be handed out to weavers in Scotland as an example for them to follow. As a result both Osnaburgh and Silesias began to be manufactured in Scotland. Coarse linens were encouraged again in ... for markets, labourers, raw materials, capital, and up-to-date technology for success in any industry. During the 18th century these needs were met. The increase in supply of cheap labour due to the agrarian revolution, advancements in technology, and easier access to capital through the British Linen Co. definitely had an impact on the industry. Also without the growing markets the industry would have never been able to expand ...
- 2136: Franklin Roosevelt 3
- Franklin Roosevelt Assuming the Presidency at the depth of the Great Depression, Franklin D. Roosevelt helped the American people regain faith in themselves. He brought hope as he promised prompt, vigorous action, and asserted in his Inaugural Address, "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself." Born in 1882 at Hyde ... top-heavy margin. Feeling he was armed with a popular mandate, he sought legislation to enlarge the Supreme Court, which had been invalidating key New Deal measures. Roosevelt lost the Supreme Court battle, but a revolution in constitutional law took place. Thereafter the Government could legally regulate the economy. Roosevelt had pledged the United States to the "good neighbor" policy, transforming the Monroe Doctrine from a unilateral American manifesto into arrangements for mutual action against aggressors. He also sought through neutrality legislation to keep the United States out of the war in Europe, yet at the same time to strengthen nations threatened ...
- 2137: Charles Dickens 4
- ... people in such a dishonorable way that the reader in some books despises them. One example of this is in Tale of Two Cities. This book shows how most people were poor during the French Revolution. The aristocracy consisted of about 3 percent of the population, and everyone else was poor in the lower class. This book shows the admirable qualities of the poor, and how they managed to squeak out ... Great Expectations because Pip is of a much lower class than Hiss Havisham and Estella. It is obvious that Pip is much different from them. In 1842, Dickens visited Canada and the United States. Dickens American Notes created a furor in America (Internet Site #2). In these writings, he presented in a disgusting way the American practice of chewing tobacco and spitting out the juice, which he considered to be quite distasteful. He also wrote Martin Chuzzlewit, which portrayed America in not a very attractive way. These two works did ...
- 2138: Conflicts Of Opinions In The Government
- ... be due to the fact that he was a farmer himself. Jefferson thought that agriculture should be the backbone of the economy, and that an industrial economy would corrupt the nation. He wanted us to American’s to purchase manufactured goods from Europe. He believed that the general citizenry should have all of the power, not a federal government. Jefferson believed that the state government should be stronger than the federal ... necessary and proper” to carry out the Constitution. They considered the creation of a national bank necessary for the nation to grow. Another area of disagreement was foreign relation. France had supported us during the American Revolution, and Jefferson favored having France as an ally and trading partner. Hamilton favored Great Britain as an important and trading partner. Why couldn’t we be allies with both? The answer is that France ...
- 2139: Corporate Development During T
- Corporate Development During the Industrial Revolution The Standard Oil Company founded by John D. Rockefeller and the U.S. Steel Company founded by Andrew Carnegie. The Standard Oil Company and U.S. Steel Company were made successful in different ways due ... because they had to pay the competitors they went through to get the raw materials. Unlike Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller integrated his oil business from top to bottom, his distinctive innovation in movement of American industry was horizontal. This meant he followed one product through all its stages. For example, rockrfeller controlled the oil when it was drilled, through the refining stage, and he maintained control over the refining process ... Rockefeller's oil monopoly did turn out a superior product at a relatively cheap price. Rockefeller belived in ruthless business, Carnegie didn't, yet they both had the most successful companies in their industries. (The American Pageant, pages 515-518) Rockefeller treated his customers in the same manner that Andrew Carnegie treated his workers: cruel and harsh. The Standard Oil Company desperately wanted every possible company to buy their products. ...
- 2140: Women's Rights in Afghanistan, China and Iran
- ... partner, the right to vote, the right to control property, and the right to equal treatment before the law along with freedom of speech. Women in Third World countries do not have the rights that American women enjoy. In most of these countries, women do not even have rights equivalent to those of American women in the nineteenth century. For example, the women have arranged marriages, have very limited access to education and are abused by their arranged husbands. In these countries, women work twice as many hours as ... 111 males for every 100 females (Sui Noi Goh 7). This statistic strongly suggests that anti-women sentiment still exists. Iran is an unusual country. Religion has always been important to Iranians, but since the revolution of 1979, Iran has become a religious state, where religious rules are state rules. It is the teachings of Islam that determines every aspect of daily life, customs, laws and government. Thus, when contemporary ...
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