...years has been a prevalent topic. Look in any newspaper, magazine or television show, and in some way you will see globalisation occurring. Globalisations definition can be liquidated as the rapid exchange of a country’s goods, services, and culture using trade, transportation, and or communication with another country and or multiple countries. (Economic News Articles, 2011) Everything has its advantages and disadvantages. Globalisation is no exception. Examining economy, technology, and culture this essay will assess the advantages and disadvantages of globalisation, and how it possibly is affecting the United Kingdom. The economy today has been greatly affected by globalisation. The world is constantly evolving. Globalisation from an economic perspective is something that needs to be examined carefully. A disadvantage of globalisation on the economy is that as companies expand they are forgetting about the less fortunate countries. The prosperity that countries acquire from globalisation is not evenly distributed among other countries. (The Business Environment, 2009) Some advantages globalisation gives to the economy are that it expands markets accessibility. There was once a time when businesses were limited to their own country and what they could offer it. Now businesses can venture out internationally, reaching out to other countries. Most countries specialize in a craft, good, or service. Globalisation allows that country to share these things without restrictions....
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...Advantages and Disadvantages of Collaboration in the Workplace Teams and groups exist in all levels of industries and organizations. Groups can be small or large, local or remote, coached or self-directed. Teams are found at all levels of business, from a multi-billion dollar corporation that builds jets to a small waterpark employing lifeguards and clerks. Successful teams need some form of leadership, good communication, problem-solving skills, and a purpose. Successful groups can achieve tremendous results,. When teams work together, everyone is working toward one common goal and completing the project with successful results. Average groups do just enough to achieve a goal, and then there are groups that are extraordinary. They achieve superior results and team members come away from the group experience with a newfound respect of what he or she helped accomplish. A study revealed eight performance indicators linking extraordinary groups and group members agreed. Each team member agreed teams must: have a compelling purpose, a shared leadership role, team structure, full engagement among members, embrace member differences, learn the unexpected, build trusting relationships, and achieve outstanding results. Whether the team is for-profit or not, volunteers or employees, face-to-face or virtual, these eight indicators emerged (Bellman & Ryan, 2010). Athletics and businesses share many of the same qualities. The head coach sets goals for his team as does the business...
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...Student name, Professor name, Course information, Submission date The advantages and disadvantages of technology Technology has offered a lot of advancements and improvements to our globe for over the years. Technology is a science applied to practical purposes. Nowadays, technology is not just limited to computers but it advances in the form of cars, microwaves, cell phones and many more. As technology has progressed a lot, this is becoming the fact that it has penetrated almost every aspect of our daily lives from business to leisure. Now we have entered an era where a frequent question revolves in our mind whether technology is saving our ruining the globe? Therefore, here I will present the advantages and disadvantages of technology simultaneously. One of the basic advantages of technology is the globalization, now we are not living in isolation but the world is now becoming a global village. The barriers of language and geographical boundaries are not hindering the knowledge of one continent to be spread globally with the means of technology. However, this massive ocean of knowledge sometimes raises the question for the authenticity of knowledge to be utilized. This would be considered as one of its disadvantage. Technology has also advanced our means of communication to a greater extend. As communication around the globe has became cheaper, quicker and more efficient. Thus now we are given the privilege to use text messaging and internet...
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...Motorola, Inc. Sabrina Harris Professor Turner Business 499 Business Administration Capstone November 12, 2011 ABSTRACT Motorola, Inc. began as Galvin Manufacturing, started in 1928 by Paul and Joseph Galvin after they acquired battery eliminator operations from a bankrupt Stewart Storage Battery Company. Galvin used the advancing technology as the ground work for their new product, the first car radio named the Motorola in 1930 followed by the police cruiser radio in 1936 and in 1937, the home radio was introduce (Michael A. Hitt, 2011). Galvin Manufacturing expanded their product line in 1940 which included two-way communication devices, with the first product being the walkie-talkie, a product that was used by the military. Galvin created a separate product division and a sales subsidiary which became Motorola Communication and they leveraged their experience with the two-way radio used by the military to introduce its commercial line of vehicular FM two-way radio system and equipment in 1941. In 1947, Galvin officially changes their name to Motorola, Inc. Detrola, a supplier to Ford Motor Company was acquired in 1947 and Motorola entered into the market of selling televisions with their product the Golden View VT71, which sold more than 100,000 televisions in the first year. In 1954 Paul Galvin reorganized the company into product line divisions as a result of the company expanding beyond its existing structure. Motorola acquired General Instrument Corporation...
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...Motorola Inc. BUS 499 May 3, 2012 Abstract This research paper will thoroughly describe the salient opportunities and threats that exist in Motorola’s external environment. Thoroughly describe the company’s most prominent strengths and weaknesses. Describe in detail the advantages and disadvantages associated with each of Motorola’s strategic options. Explain in detail how the corporation’s strategy and organizational structure can be designed to solve the company’s strategic issues. Finally, this research paper will thoroughly explain how Motorola should proceed. Opportunities and threats that exist in Motorola’s external environment. Motorola’s biggest threat comes from competitors in the cell phone and mobile device market. Motorola is constantly faced with upcoming technologies from other company’s in this particular market. Motorola does not have the competitive advantage when it comes to social networking technologies, and the numbers of technology competitors are steadily increasing especially when it comes to social networking. Competitors such as Sony Ericson, Samsung, and Nokia have a competitive edge in the social networking market and pose huge threats for Motorola. The Japanese also pose a major threat by flooding the market with high quality products for a low price. Motorola has put itself in a position where the brand is a household name, also spread itself out to a global economy and made it available to new markets. By using an assortment of...
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...BP DIVERSION INTO RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES Table of Contents DEFINITIONS 1 OVERVIEW; BP 1 STRATEGY 2 ISSUE OF GLOBALISATION 2 ENVIRONMENT 2 CHALLENGES 2 Cost 2 Economic Growth 2 Risk 2 Technology 2 NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT 2 Current Status of Renewable Energy 3 ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES 3 ORGANISATION 4 RISK MANAGEMENT 4 Political Risk 4 Economical Risk 4 Financial Risk 4 CONCLUSION 4 DEFINITIONS Innovation Innovation can be defined as the application of knowledge in a novel way, primarily for economic benefit. Innovations have two main characteristics. First, innovations break the mould by applying knowledge in some novel way. Second, innovations are the result of a chain of events that starts with the original idea, invention or discovery, and then proceeds through prototype construction, financing, customer demonstration, field trials, engineering, and production, marketing. Only by successfully completing this obstacle course can an invention be considered innovation. Apart from skill and resources, the most important requirements are clear head, an ability to improvise and dogged determination. Creativity Entrepreneurship Intrapreneurship OVERVIEW; BP BP is one of the world’s established and leading oil and gas companies. They grind to provide customers with fuel for transportation, energy for heat and light, lubricants to keep engines moving and petrochemicals products use in making everyday items such as paints, clothes...
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...Disadvantage and Advantage of Education Choices Students today have so many options to enhance their education. While traditional education has advantages for the students, online education can have the same components and techniques just in a different method of teaching. Online education better prepares a colleague for their future by offering smaller student to teacher ratios and tailoring materials to the student's specific interests; however, traditional school education prepares a colleague to interact with groups of other students and learn social skills and conflict resolution, through sports or other outside activities. Each education method has advantages and disadvantages for students to choose the best education for each individual needs. The students can compare and contrast the pros and cons of each educational method to make the best choice about their education. During the early years in the 1950’s, it was the traditional school education or the option to have no education for the students to choose for their future. This was the only option because of the lack of technology that was available to the economy to do the online education. Today we are more advanced in technology and still growing in this category. The first advantage of the traditional students had been that they were able to learn to socialize with other students. Socialization is a very important learning ability to learn in the traditional school environment that will be effective throughout...
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...List of Contents 1. Background 3 2. Globalization Problems 4 3. Types of Globalization 5 3.1 Economical globalization 5 3.2 Political globalization 5 3.3 Social globalization 5 3.4 Cultural globalization 5 4. Pro or against globalization? 6 4.1 Advantages of globalization 6 4.2 Disadvantages of globalization 6 4.3 Institutes 6 5. Conclusion 7 6. Sources 7 1. Background Globalization is simply becoming world-wide or making it world-wide. It exists at a lot of places in different sizes. Globalization is to create a good world economy. This could be done by big multinational companies. The reason why I mention the multinationals is because of the influence that they (can) have on the economy worldwide. After all, the world trade plays the biggest part in it. However globalization and the free world trade don’t automatically mean that the well-being is divided all over the world. But where did it start? Who started it and why is it so important for the well being of the world? Well, the globalization existed during different levels/steps. People/companies with power from the past created our current globalize civilization. The first level was when the South conquered the North and applying economical structures. Consequences were the slavery. The second level was the colonization. The North plundered the South, recreated maps and set up one religion and forced their language to be the official language. The third level...
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...undertaken each week on a recurrent basis e.g. 35, 37, 39 hours would all be considered full time. Advantages to Employer: the same person is doing the job all of the time and they will therefore be more likely to have a high level of skills and expertise in that job. Advantages to Employee: ability to earn more benefits relating to job. Regular working pattern which can help with things such as child care. Forward planning for holidays etc. Disadvantages to Employer: Lack of flexibility in working hours. Disadvantages to Employee: Also lack of flexibility in terms of needing time of at short notice etc. Less time to spend with family and friend if you are working full time. Part-Time Employees will work an agreed number of hours per week; this could mean a reduced number of hours per day or a reduced number of days per week. This will again be dependent on the environment they are working in. Advantages to Employer: increased flexibility, overheads can be reduced, shared workload amongst staff. Advantages to Employee: increased work/life balance (see additional notes – Work/Life balance), less likely to become stressed, increased motivation/morale, less likely to lose focus and become bored. Disadvantages to Employer: may be more costly to employ a number of part-time staff, they are entitled to same benefits to full-time employee on a pro-rate basis. Disadvantages to Employee: due to demands of work they may end up working more than their actual hours, can be left...
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...Unit Title: The Business Environment Guided Learning Hours: 160 Level: Level 5 Number of Credits: 18 Learning Outcome 1 The learner will: Understand the significance of the environment on business activity. Assessment Criteria The learner can: 1.1 Explain the features of business activity. Indicative Content 1.1.1 Explain the business organisation as a transformation process. 1.1.2 Describe the different ways in which a business may structure its activities. 1.2 Discuss the complex interactions that operate between a business and its environment. 1.2.1 Discuss the complexity, volatility and uniqueness of an organisation's environment. 1.2.2 Explain the influence of shareholders on the internal environment of an organisation. 1.2.3 Outline the nature of the external environment (PEST). 1.3 Explain the need for change and its management within an individual business. 1.3.1 Discuss the need to monitor changes in the external environment. 1.3.2 Discuss the implications of environmental change for a business, its stakeholders and society. 1.3.3 Explain reasons for resistance to change by firms, managers and employees. 1.3.4 Describe ways in which resistance to change may be overcome. Learning Outcome 2 The learner will: Understand the structure and organisation of business. Assessment Criteria The learner can: 2.1 Discuss the impact of industrial and legal structure and size on organisational behaviour. Indicative Content 2.1.1 Classify businesses...
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...As organizations continue to expand globally and increase the use of internet/web technologies to conduct their business, virtual teams continue to increase significantly. In today’s business world, virtual teams are more common in the workplace as opposed to face to face teams. There are various differences between virtual and face to face teams and thus the advantages and disadvantages of each team will be discussed. Comparison and Contrast Nonetheless, teams are defined as a group of people with complementary skills that are committed to achieve a common purpose. The author Gregory Berry further explains that teams interact interdependently and are bought together or come together voluntarily; to achieve a certain outcome (Berry, 2011). The members of teams are jointly responsible for the outcomes (Berry, 2011). It is important to understand the dynamics and structure of teams. Such an aspect is important because each team possesses different advantages and disadvantages and one must choose the most effective type depending on the purpose or task that needs to be attained. A virtual team is able to work anywhere and is linked by web communication to achieve organizational tasks (Cummings, 2011). A face to face team is a group of people who work in an organization in the same environment and communicate directly with each other. Virtual Teams In today’s environment, there are many advantages to employing virtual teams. Virtual teams are used to utilize geographically dispersed...
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...Unit Title: The Business Environment Guided Learning Hours: 160 Level: Level 5 Number of Credits: 18 Learning Outcome 1 The learner will: Understand the significance of the environment on business activity. Assessment Criteria The learner can: Indicative Content 1.1 Explain the features of business activity. 1.1.1 Explain the business organisation as a transformation process. 1.1.2 Describe the different ways in which a business may structure its activities. 1.2 Discuss the complex interactions that operate between a business and its environment. 1.2.1 Discuss the complexity, volatility and uniqueness of an organisation's environment. 1.2.2 Explain the influence of shareholders on the internal environment of an organisation. 1.2.3 Outline the nature of the external environment (PEST). 1.3 Explain the need for change and its management within an individual business. 1.3.1 Discuss the need to monitor changes in the external environment. 1.3.2 Discuss the implications of environmental change for a business, its stakeholders and society. 1.3.3 Explain reasons for resistance to change by firms, managers and employees. 1.3.4 Describe ways in which resistance to change may be overcome. Learning Outcome 2 The learner will: Understand the structure and organisation of business. Assessment Criteria The learner can: Indicative Content 2.1 Discuss the impact of industrial and legal structure and size on organisational behaviour. 2.1.1 Classify...
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...Case 17: “Motorola, Inc.” Sadra Burris Ms. Jacinta Acquay BUS 499 August 7, 2011 Motorola, Inc. Motorola is an inventor of technology and has first-mover advantage. In the early years, Motorola controlled the emerging U.S. market for wireless communication devices such as cellular telephones, pagers and high-frequency radios. Motorola maintains sales, service and manufacturing facilities throughout the U.S. and conduct business in international markets. Motorola is strongly committed to delivering customer satisfaction, continuous improvement, and setting new standards of quality through their development of the Six Sigma Quality Improvement Process. Six Sigma is an analytical, statistical Approach that is used to improve the quality of manufacturing processes and to eliminate defects (Michael A Hatt, 2011). Describe the salient opportunities and threats that exist in Motorola’s external environment. Motorola’s promotional strategy is very strong. They thrive in being innovative. One of their best opportunities is their wide range of products that are well placed in the market. They’ve had affiliations with the military and automobile makers. The involvements in ventures of the radio and cell phone industries with Verizon, Telnet, and other worldwide companies alternately has provided increased market growth. Products are created to allow them to easily enter a market where risk is extensively high then in comparison to its competitors. Motorola has also...
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...Advantages and Disadvantages of Java v. .NET University of Phoenix CSS/422 .NET and Java There is no shortage of definitions for software architecture but in a general sense it is the blueprint for a system, its properties and the relationships among all of the elements. It specifies all of the actions to be taken by the design and implementations teams. There are various differences between .NET and Java Technology so there are certainly advantages and disadvantages to using one or the other as software architecture. The choice, however, depends on the scope of the project and the skill of the design team. Both .NET and Java have platforms that offer a good solid foundation for project design. Java Technology is the choice of many developers because of its work-saving features and ease of use. “.NET and web services are tightly integrated and it is easier to create a basic web service in .NET” (Ranck, 2002). Advantages A major advantage of .NET is that it allows for the use of multiple languages and horizontal scalability. This feature makes it an ideal choice by developers for software architecture if they want to write programs in C++, Java or Virtual Basic because it provides a unified environment in which to work. It is easily developed and supported. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for Java which is limited to use with the Java programming language only. Another advantage of .NET is that the interface is easily...
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...Innovation in Technology, Advantages and Disadvantages. Introduction: The objective of this paper is to examine the techniques related to incremental technological innovation in light of its advantages and disadvantages. Many studies focus on techniques of speeding up the cycle of product design. However, the fastest and most effective way to speed up the introduction of a product is to execute an incremental improvement – to an existing produce - that could serve a new and particular need. On the other side of the spectrum, there is what is called the megaproject. A project that starts out with over-the-top ambitious objectives, it requires almost extraordinary effort to accomplish, it demands enormous financial budgets, it typically runs over time and misses many deadlines, and at the end, few examples make a splash and many are written as “tax deductions”. While these heroic projects make good news stories, they do not always make money. They can fail very dramatically and expensively. Since these failures do not make such good new stories, we hear less about them, and overestimate the success rate of megaprojects. We underestimate the importance and value of incremental programs and mislead ourselves about the true risk of the megaproject. We need to look more carefully at these two approaches. Therefore, the opinion expressed here is that the incremental innovators are in fact the unsung heroes of product development. In examining the advantages of incremental...
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