...American University in Bulgaria Evgeni Iordanov, Ralitsa Domuschieva, Ivan Djelebov EMBA Cohort 14 Case facilitation: Innovations at Mozilla corporation Prof Lucia Miree HR Class Executive Summary of the team case facilitation Main topics in the case: Assessment process, Compensation model, Onboarding program, learning, and development at Mozilla Corporation. Key challenges: After long period without having structured and clear vision about the HR processes, in Mozilla Corporation has been introduced new HR director, who introduced several measures in order to improve the quality of the human capital and to strength the Mozilla`s leading position as one for the best and inspiring employer in the world of IT business. Key Findings: Assessment process In the assessment process, Mozilla conducted over two hundred interviews with managers and employees, and base on that they start identifying potential position for growing and evaluate the overall performance. With the assessment procedure, Cohen understood the team needs and increased the cooperation between them. Compensation process Although the “Cultish” approach in Mozilla about the opportunities for working in such a company and the behavior that pays not matter as first, Cohen tried to bring sustainable way of remuneration. She developed two compensation systems – one for technologists (the software engineers), and one for non‐engineers (which are very few)...
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...In today’s fast moving world it is important for every company to keep up with the pace of change and be innovative. This job can not be done by just a few people within the company. However companies need the help of everyone, especially the costumers, since they are the one who have the needs and buy or do not buy the product in the end. Useful knowledge is wide spread and hard to get. One possible avenue to collect as many new ideas and suggestions as possible – is to use the concept of Open Innovation. Open Innovations connect external ideas with the knowledge of the internal Research and Development division of a company (Chesbrough, 2003). It is difficult and costly to fully understand the costumers. Open Innovations give the companies a chance to let their customers participate in their innovation process (Thomke & von Hippel, 2002). Open Source is one of the most controversial phenomena of IT-industry nowadays. Confrontation of its supporters and opponents is perhaps the most noticeable trend in the soft world recent years. And it is not surprising because as soon as someone starts to speak about Open Source, the rest remember Microsoft and its products, which are common examples for proving inferiority and inadequacy of proprietary software (i.e. programs with closed-source) (Sharma, Sugumaran, & Rajagopalan, 2002). Open Source is a method of programs’ development and licensing, in which everyone is entitled to a free application use or sale...
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...The Launching of Mozilla Firefox- A Case Study in Community-Led Marketingi Sandeep Krishnamurthy Associate Professor of E-Commerce and Marketing Business Administration Program University of Washington, Bothell Box 358533, 18115 Campus Way NE, Room UW1-233 Bothell, WA 98011-8246 Phone: (425) 352 5229 Fax: (425) 352 5277 E-mail: sandeep@u.washington.edu URL: http://faculty.washington.edu/sandeep Version 1.0 January 27, 2005 Usage Policy 1This is an early draft of the paper. I expect to revise it many times and submit it to an academic journal for publication at a later date. Your input is welcome. You are welcome to use the document in its current form for teaching or research purposes. If you use it in your classroom, e-mail me about how this was received and tell me how I can improve it. Always cite the original document when using. You may cite it asKrishnamurthy, Sandeep (2005), “The Launching of Mozilla Firefox- A Case Study in Community-Led Marketing”, Working Paper, Available at http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/sandeep2.pdf. 4If you notice any errors or omissions in this document or if you have other suggestions for improvement or collaboration, e-mail me at sandeep@u.washington.edu. 2- 3- 2 The Launching of Mozilla Firefox- A Case Study in Community-Led Marketing ABSTRACT Mozilla Firefox is a Free/Libre/Open Source (FLOSS) browser supported by the Mozilla Foundation. This browser was recently released and has met with considerable success- it has...
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...Design Brief Objective * To create a website that allows the client to compose a resume containing information about their education, work experience, references, awards, interests, activities, hobbies in order to be presented to different employers at the moment of submitting job applications. * To allow employers to contact client trough the “Contact Me” page Content * Personal details * Education and qualifications * Work Experience * Contact me Application For the design and development of the Resume website we will use the Web Development Program - Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004, which meets the expectations to create a BEAUTIFUL website. For testing our website we will use a number of web browsers including Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Internet Explorer. B – Site Structure C – Story Board D - Client questionary 1. What is the message that your website should bring across? 2. Do you have any existing website? If yes, please specify the URL 3. Do you require a website redesign or a complete new website? 4. Do you require a website that you can update yourself? 5. How often would you be making updates to the website? 6. Describe your prospective customers or visitors. 7. Do you have any color preference for the website? 8. Please mention at least 2 websites that you like. Please also mention the reason why you like them. 9. Do you have any specific budget for this project? 10. Do you have a time frame within which...
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...Stuck on a Microsoft® Office 2010 project? Need a Microsoft Office 2010 skills refresher? Compass can show you the way. What Is Compass? Compass is a searchable database of multimedia tools designed to teach the 50 most essential skills in Microsoft Word, Excel, Access, and PowerPoint. Available on your PC or mobile phone, Compass is an online, at-your-fingertips resource for tech savvy students who need help and answers right away. Where Do I Find Compass? www.myitlab.com/compass How to use Compass Open your web browser and navigate to www.myitlab.com/compass Search for a skill by typing a key word or phrase in the SEARCH box To find a FREQUENTLY SEARCHED SKILL click on View Skill next to the skill you are interested in. The search results display in a concept map, centered on the skill you searched. Each skill you click centers the concept map to show additional skills related to your search. When the skill you are looking for appears in the search results, click on the skill name to launch step-by-step instructions. Click on the VIEW AT A GLANCE or WATCH VIDEO button to see how to execute the skill. RETURN TO MAP will always bring you back to the map where you last left it. Learn more about using the skill in Word, Excel, Access, and PowerPoint, by clicking the OPEN tab in the lower right hand corner of the screen. Click the CLOSE tab when you are finished. To search for another skill, type a key word or phrase in the search box at the top of the screen or click the...
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...The three browsers that I would be speaking of are Mozilla Firefox , Google Chrome and Opera. These three browsers are the main browsers on the market at the present point in time they are all used world wide and are used by millions each between themselves as individual browsers. They are all supportive of cross platform use Windows Os , Mac Os and Linux Os and can also be used on portable devices such as tablets and cell phones. Opera being the older of the three has been around for quite some time in fact since 1994 when it was started as a research project at Telenor a Norwegian telecommunications company. In 1995, the project branched out into a separate company named Opera Software ASA, and launched a version in 1996.Opera has made many upgrades since then, and introduced notable features such as Speed Dial. The Opera browser was named MultiTorg up until version 2.0 and was not available to the public. Opera was known for its multiple document interface (MDI) and 'hotlist' (sidebar), which made browsing several pages at once much easier as with the other 2 browsers Mozilla and Chrome In February 2013, Opera Software announced that their proclaimed rendering engine, Presto, would be phased out in favour of WebKit which is carried also by Mozilla and Chrome.[4] Opera 15 saw the browser being fully rewritten, with this and subsequent releases being based on Blink and Chromium Os. Even with as many features carried Opera browser is recommended for slower and earlier...
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...The World Is Flat Flattener Information Technology Essay The World Is Flat is an international bestselling book by Thomas Friedman that analyzes globalization, primarily in the early 21st century. The title is a metaphor for viewing the world as a level playing field in terms of commerce, where all competitors have an equal opportunity. Globalization became more prominent during the last decades. Friedman argues that globalization made the world smaller and flatter, allowing all countries to take chance of the available opportunities equally. As Friedman describes in “The World is Flat” there are three eras of globalization and ten flatteners which made the world smaller, making it easier to communicate and share our knowledge. This paper deals with the flattener number 2 i.e.; “When the NetScape went Public” and associated developments after 2003 till date. Background Thomas Lauren Friedman is an American journalist, columnist and author and has won the Pulitzer Prize three times. In his famous book “The World is Flat” he identifies three eras of globalization. The first era, called "Globalization 1.0",between the years 1492, when Columbus set out to discover a new trade route to the New World, and 1800, made the world fall in size from large to medium. During this period, the strength of a country was based on the number of horsepower or the number of steam engines owned, compared with other countries. The second period - "Globalization 2.0", between the years 1800 and...
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...Facebook, a hub of 100,000 business pages, rolled out video calling for messenger on 27 April 2015.With this added feature facebook aims to connect people all over the world face to face no matter what internet connection or cell phones they have. Skype, Google hangouts and many others offer the same feature of video calling but what facebook offers additional to its user’s is “video stabilization”. The product head of messenger Stan Chudnovsky says “the developers of facebook focused on making video calls work well even on relatively low-bandwidth cell networks. In a demonstration, the quality of call was even good inside the building where we had only two connectivity bars on LTE.” Video calling will definitely help facebook messenger gain considerable momentum because the product now has more than 600 million active monthly users and obviously the number is increasing day by day. Although facebook has no intention of earning from these calls but this added feature builds up its “facebook for work service” image. This user friendly feature is available cross-platform so that android users can chat up with their IOS friends. * HOW TO START A CALL? From the product usage point there is nothing much that needs to be explained. You simply tap the video icon and start a call. If your friend is not currently available for a video chat, the video button will turn gray indicating “{name} is currently unavailable”. * CAN I USE MESSENGER AND VIDEO CHAT AT THE SAME TIME? You...
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...<Student Name> ENG 315 – Professional Communications <Professor Name> <Date> To: CustomerServiceReps@WebSiteBased.com From: Don Silver < DSilver@WebSiteBased.com > Subject: New Procedures for Web Site Development on Internet Explorer 10 Happy Friday Team, As many of you know, Web Site Based is always looking to integrate and adapt with the latest Microsoft products that are available. * We ensure to our customers that our work is completed and verified within all current and sunset web browsers. * We allow our customers to work effectively and smoothly within any selective browsers. This requires for us to remain as up-to-date with each common web based browsers such as Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. Internet Explorer has recently provide Internet Explorer 10. Web Site Based has been consistently using Internet Explorer 9 for all development work. In order to remain consistent with the quality of service we provide to our customers, effective Monday April, 20th, all developers should follow the following steps below when working in Internet Explorer 10 for any development: 1. Open the webpage in Internet Explorer, and then click Compatibility View on the Tools menu. If you do not see the Tools menu, press ALT. 2. When Compatibility View is turned on, the button changes from an outline to a solid color when you view the page. 3. In Internet Explorer, click Compatibility View setting son the Tools menu. If you do...
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...Most professions have an ethical guideline that most will follow and adhere too, some have more responsibility than others, the medical industry for example has a very crucial ethical standing to go with the line of work, such as patient confidentiality (2009), but that isn’t to say that ethics in other lines of work aren’t as relevant as others. The line for what is ethically right and wrong in the design/development industry can be a little blurred at times (2007), for example graffiti could be looked at by some as offensive, whereas others may see it as creative freedom. This can cause problems for designers who have to take an extra responsibility to make sure their work is ethically correct. Back in 1995 when web browsers were fairly new there had not been much thought and consideration put in to ethics related to browsers (2011), this was partly due to there a relatively small amount of the population using the internet at the time, so not every issue had been discovered or addressed. As browsers progressed ethical problems arose such as online security and what details a browser should and shouldn’t save, issues which needed addressing immediately, such as cookie law, advertisements and data tracking. Chrome is a relatively new web browser, launched in 2008 by Google. Being a new browser means any ethical issues previously found in browsers, such as how information entered by a user can be stored and how it is allowed to be used, could instantly be implemented...
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...Which Browser is Best: Determining the Benefits to Each Browser Which Browser is Best: Determining the Benefits to Each Browser The purpose of this research paper is to take the reviews from users to help highlight both the positives as well as the negatives of the top four widely used Internet browsers, which will ultimately help determine which browser is the best available for consumers to use. The purpose of this study is to determine which browser is the best out of the four, and to highlight the best features from each browser, and determine their significance on how each feature is. The significance of the study is to analyze the information given on each browser and translate it into information that Internet users can take away to help them determine which browser is the best one for them between Internet Explorer, Safari, Firefox, and Chrome. The Internet has become more readily available across the globe which has caused many software developers to create their own Internet browser. In the past couple of years there has been a flood of Internet browsers available for use (Bidgoli, 2009). When the Internet was only available in select countries there was only a select number of browsers that a user could use to access the Internet. The Internet is only going to become available to more people which will most likely bring more Internet browsers to the market. There are currently millions of users that are accessing the Internet daily and each browser...
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...time of first seeing the site. Mozilla’s website is one of the Best website designs currently out there. Mozilla’s site has many positives to its design. First off, just by looking at the home page, it is easily discerned that this is the Mozilla site. The bold title helps with this. There is minimal flashing or changing pictures, with only one news feed of pictures that change at a relatively slow rate. The information is spaced well, with plenty of white space to use as borders for each piece of information on the page. The amount of color is kept to a minimal; only use a new color for the most important things. This example can be seen with the download Firefox button being the only green on the page, beside green in the news feed. Source - Mozilla The amount of information on the home page is limited to only what is needed. While at first it seems like a lot, most of the important information is at the top and easily accessible to the users who just want to download Firefox. Information lower on the home page is design for easy access for users who want more advanced information about Mozilla, such as the operating system for the mobile web. Even the new feed of pictures is clear on what each picture represents. Source – Mozilla Navigation is simplistic as it can get. Each link is clearly displayed as the common style of blue words that become underlined when highlighted. The Firefox page is reached by clicking the Firefox symbol. Minor links and tabs to common pages...
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...Mozilla Firefox When going to the site that requires mutual authentication, person has to present a certificate to the server by giving his/her identity. To obtain this identity, you have to contact and obtain the certificate from the certificate authority that the web server trusts. Most companies obtained the certificate automatically for their owned computers. Some companies sometime set the certificates on smartcards for employee to use. Firefox can access the certificate from Firefox store. Also, when using public website like HTTPS, the trusted root certificate is already in Firefox certificate store because it is pre-loaded. Exporting certificate from Firefox To export certificate from Firefox, first click on the main menu, from main menu, choose tools options, advanced, select the encryption tab and then click on view certificates. When the certificate store is opened, click on the certificate tab to view the certificate that you need. The PGP Trustcenter certificate will be listed under the TC Trustcenter name. Then highlight your certificate that is to be exported, and click on the backup button. Select a location to save your certificate and give it a name, then click save. Another page will come up that requested for password, choose a backup password and click ok. A message will inform you that your certificate has now been backed up, click ok. Importing your certificate into Firefox From the main menu, choose tools, options, Advance, then select the encryption...
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...up the browser all of the pertinent pages are immediately available for me to access. Overall, Chrome has been a great browser with only minor issues. At work I use Internet Explorer. I have found no issues with this browser and believe the only reason I don’t use it personally is for a change of scenery. Explorer seems to offer all of the same functions that Chrome has as well as the occasional crash. Because the Air Force remains loyal to Microsoft, the one plus to Explorer is that it is the only browser that will operate all of the online applications that the Air Force requires we use. Other than this minor detail, I have found no difference in the functionality. Another browser that I’ve been able to experiment with is Mozilla Firefox. This browser seems very similar to Explorer. The functionality is about the same but as stated before, it doesn’t allow complete uninhibited access to all of the Air Force applications that are necessary to function on a daily basis. I believe this is due to a security issue for some of the applications. Because this is a browser that is available on government...
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...to a customer that may wish to cancel, I am required to access different systems on the computer, and by having strong typing speeds, a good working knowledge of Microsoft Office and organisational skills, accuracy and attention to detail, I am able to complete my role to a competent level. In my administrative roles previously, I’ve managed Excel documents to a reputable standard that are easy to use for other members of staff. These roles required data entry, and access to other databases in Excel in order to extract information to complete my job role. I am confident in the use of the internet, my preferable choice of web browser is Google Chrome, but I am confident in using other web browsers, such as Internet Explorer, Safari and Mozilla Firefox. I feel I have the ability to work well under pressure and the ability to prioritise workloads in order to meet deadlines, whilst...
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