...chain management * Taxation * Production cost * Innovation * Social Innovation:- * In health and education there are changes occurring, due to social innovations in social networking (use of internet to provide information that used to be delivered face to face e.g. online education and diagnosis websites), and also structural changes (e.g. in Higher Education worldwide there is a greater demand for online, distance and work based approaches which are increasing the need for appropriate electronic hardware and software, whilst in school education in the UK (specifically in England) parents can now set up schools outside local authority control. In health, in the UK (again in England specifically, GPs (doctors’ surgeries) are going to have much more control over spending (reducing that controlled by health boards), and there is also the issues of pushing more care out to the community, which means that health care workers will need to use communications and other mobile medical technologies to meet medical requirements. * Sustainability * Production efficiency - i.e. making the same product with fewer resources, including recycling opportunities, renewable energy opportunities, alternative materials opportunities (i.e. making the product out of renewables rather than oil based products for example. These are supply side (production-based) * Product Innovation - i.e. redesigning the product to do the same job but in a different way...
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...3-D PRINTERS Your name Author’s note INTRODUCTION A 3D printer is a machine used to create 3D objects from digital files. The designer creates a 3D image of the object in a CAD software or scans the object using a 3D scanner then uploads the file to the 3D printer (3D Printing, n.d.). The printer then slices the object into layers which are then used to print out the object. 3D printers were initially known as rapid prototyping technology as they emerged into the manufacturing industry in the early 1980’s. Little was known about this technology but it was promising because as an additive manufacturing technique, it reduced lead time. The lead time is the time between the ordering and the getting of a product by the consumer (Definition of Lead Time and Cycle Time, 2010). This is highly reduced due to little or no machining of the component. 3D printing reduces material wastage and finishing operations on the manufactured object. This has encouraged the manufacturing sector to welcome it with open arms because it also saves on money, maximizes profits and reduces any needed man power compared to the subtractive techniques (welding, filing, drilling etc.) being employed. Printing in 3D is essential in the upcoming world. Till recently, a designer does not need to design and then manufacture the component in order to sell or present it to potential consumers. This technique has enabled creating of Open Source Hardware platforms, where an idea created in Russia can be perfected...
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...Management Strategy Issues) “For a newly internationalised company, like Elecdyne, discuss one of the following sets of issues (from 1-4), plus you must discuss issue 5.” 1. The centralisation-decentralisation debate You should identify where the various functions of management sit in terms of being upstream, downstream, neither, or both, and how developments in technology may affect these functions in the next 10 years. | 2. Social innovation and networking You should undertake an analysis of the social innovation based opportunities that might develop for a newly internationalised company, like Elecdyne in different sectors (e.g. health and education) over the next 10 years. | 3. Sustainability and the potential impact of related issues on the company’s innovation, production and / or logistics functionsYou should analyse the sustainability based opportunities that might develop for a newly internationalised company, like Elecdyne over the next 10 years and evaluate the potential impact of these on the company’s innovation, production and / or logistics functions. | 4. Corporate social responsibility (CSR), including 5 key CSR related issues, Pyramid of CSR etc. You should evaluate the issue of corporate social responsibility using the “Pyramid of CSR framework” and analyse 5 key CSR related issues (recycling, ethical business, working condition, environmental issues, and philanthropy activities) or factors that you think a newly internationalised company...
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...everyone. Goro Yoshida, Saburo Uchida and Takeo Maeda started a small laboratory dedicated to making high-quality cameras in a simple apartment room in the Roppongi area of Tokyo in 1933. This was also an important stepping stone to the creation of Canon. The three succeeded in building the first prototype, which was named Kwanon after the Buddhist Goddess of Mercy. Then in 1935, Japan's first-ever 35 mm focal-plane-shutter camera, the Hanza Canon, was born, marking the origins of the Canon brand. Today, Canon has successfully become one of the giants in the production of photographic equipments. Their core products remained as digital, film cameras and lens production while they expend their business to camcorders, photocopiers, printers, scanners, projectors, calculators, binoculars and as well as their own ink cartridges. Canon has sales and marketing headquarters around the world as well as their own research & development centres. The centre in Philippines specializes in the development of electronic application equipment and software. The centre in India focuses on image-processing and other software. While the research laboratory in China focuses on Chinese-language processing, image processing technologies and internet-related applications. In total they...
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...Kodak and the Digital revolution 1. Evaluate Kodak's strategy in traditional photography. Why has the company been so successful throughout the history of the industry? Kodak is known for providing the quality services, innovative products offering the best quality to customers. It developed competitive advantages and satisfied its customers during many years. Kodak has evolved different strategies in the field of traditional photography where it brought innovations and modification. Kodak has a successful history in the industry. According to the case study, the main reason behind the success of Kodak in the industry is its quality. 2. Compare traditional photography to digital imaging. What are the main structural differences? Will digital imaging replace traditional imaging? How have value creation and value appropriation changed in digital photography relative to traditional photography? The digital image consists of a defined set of points called pixels. The traditional image on sensitive material also consists of points or grains of metallic silver. Contrary to the traditional photography, the digital images aren’t using any consumable any more, as the digital image are stock on a memory stick. Digital imaging will replace the traditional photography, because the quality of the digital technology is growing a lot, and digital picture are in line todays need. The demand for the digital products is getting higher day by day. Therefore, it can be very easily...
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...Task 13: Sustainability and the potential impact of related issues on the company’s innovation, production and / or logistics functions You should analyse the sustainability based opportunities that might develop for a newly internationalised company, like Elecdyne over the next 10 years and evaluate the potential impact of these on the company’s innovation, production and / or logistics functions. 1) Sustainability based opportunities for Elecdyne over the 10 years 2) Potential impact on innovation, production and/or logistics functions 3) Identify the economic, social and/or environmental aspects of sustainability Task 15: Using the relevant framework (e.g. identify the economic, social and / or environmental aspects of the issues chosen), what objectives / strategies an internationalised company might therefore set, and how it would measure success in meeting these objectives / of these strategies. You should critically discuss the problems that international companies may face, when they have multiple objectives (considering economic, social and / or environmental aspects) and the use of the balanced scorecard approach for making strategic decisions. 1) What objectives/strategies can be set 2) How it would measure success in meeting these objectives/strategies Introduction Introduction of the company+ introducing sustainability and why is important, why we chose it. (10 lines) The Japanese company Elecdyne produces a range of electronic...
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...7/15/2014 Image source| canon Canada Canon Marketing Plan Prepared for Phillip Fletcher Red River College P411-160 Princess Street Winnipeg, MB R3B 1K9 Prepared by Rafid Hasim, 0267906 13 August 2014 Contents Overview 4 Executive Summary 5 Company Profile 6 Mission Statement 6 Vision 6 Product Categories 6 Recent awards 7 Recent Success 7 Principal Competencies 8 Situation Analysis 10 Pestle Analysis 10 SWOT Analysis 11 Competitor Analysis 11 Market Segmentation Strategy 12 Target Market 12 Product 14 Product Life Cycle 14 Branding 15 Adoption curve 15 Pricing Strategy 17 Strategy 17 Evaluation 17 Policy 17 Circulation Chanel and Strategy 18 Retailing Strategy: 18 Straight marketing 18 Promotion 19 Sales promotion 19 Events and experiences 19 Media Advertising 20 Bibliography 21 Overview This paper covers Canon Inc. various aspects of the marketing mix. It talks about their new entry-level camera Canon Rebel T3II or 600d. This paper is structured to show Canon Inc. four categories of marketing such as product, price, placement, and promotion. This paper also goes over benefits and potential competitors, as well as company profile and there mission & vision. The Company overview section focuses on the opening to the company, its business, financial overview, market share and competitors. The second part inspects the situation analysis of the company in...
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...By 1888, Eastman created the first Kodak camera and with that laid the foundation for making photography available to everyone. Industry Analysis The inkjet printer industry shares $45 billion a year of the total overall market. The industry is shared by many different competitors such as: Canon Inc., Fujifilm Holdings Corp., Sony Corp., Konica Minolta Holdings Inc., and Lexmark International Inc. This industry is directly linked to the Computer segment of this industry because the computer hardware is the products that use this ink. The top hardware competitors Kodak will be competing with are: Hewlett-Packard, Epson, Canon, Lexmark, Dell, Brother, and Samsung. Kodak plans to enter this competitive market in these 2 different sectors with their own printers and ink that will cost half the price of the inks in the stores now. Kodak may run into some issues in the future and will cause problems for inkjet-printer makers. With the low price in ink, the other companies will have to respond. For instance, they may have to make their printers compatible with this ink keep printer sales from dropping. The future holds growth for the segment of inkjet printing but not for Kodak. Over the next decade ink-based printing will yield some volumes to digital printing technologies but those who already own these ink-based printers won’t be likely to shy away...
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...HSA 520: Health Information Systems January 27, 2013 Harold Griffin, Ph.D. 1. Analyze the basic technology underlying health care information systems and determine the most pressing need for innovation. The modern health care system involves managing an enormous amount of information about millions of people. Only with the help of modern information technology can the health care industry provide quality care to its patients. Health care information systems come in two forms: practice management and electronic health records (EHR). Practice management software allows the organization of patient appointments, lab results, and referrals, but does not organize with the specific information on each patient. EHR stores data on a patient's health history. An electronic health record contains the same information about a patient as a regular medical chart, such as medical history, medications, allergies, lab results, immunizations, and billing information. All health information systems consist of the software itself and the hardware. Although health information technology (HIT) software is utilized on computers by receptionists and medical staff, the data is often stored and managed off site by the HIT provider. Scanners and printers play a big role in EHR because of the amount of data that must be transformed into and from a digital format. Wireless routers are the next essential piece of a full EHR system that allows doctors to work with laptops or...
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...Joseph Nicéphore Niépce. When Joseph was 28, he was discussing with his brother Claude about the possibility of reproducing images with light. His focus on his new innovations began in 1816. Joseph and his brother focused on that for quite some time and Claude successfully promoted his innovation moving and advancing him to England. Joseph was able to focus on the photograph and finally in 1826, he was able to produce his first photograph of a view through his window. It took 8 hours of exposure to light to finally process it. Now, with digital imaging photos do not take that long to process. Brown, B. As digital technology became cheaper in later decades, it replaced the old film methods for many purposes. The first digital image was produced in 1920, by the Bartlane cable picture transmission system. British inventors, Harry G. Bartholomew and Maynard D. McFarlane, developed this method. The process consisted of “a series of negatives on zinc plates that were exposed for varying lengths of time, thus producing varying densities,” The Bartlane cable picture transmission system generated at both its transmitter and its receiver end a punched data card or tape that was recreated as an image. In 1957, Russell A. Kirsch produced a device that generated digital data that could be stored in a computer; this used a drum scanner and photomultiplier tube. In the early 1960s, while developing compact, lightweight, portable equipment for the onboard nondestructive testing of naval aircraft...
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...Implementation Guide for the Use of Bar Code Technology in Healthcare Sponsored by Implementation Guide for the Use of Bar Code Technology in Healthcare © 2003 HIMSS 230 E. Ohio St., Suite 500 Chicago, IL 60611 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, adapted, translated, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. HIBCC ® and HIN® System are trademarks of the Health Industry Business Communications Council. ISBN: 0-9725371-2-0 Table of Contents Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .v Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .vii Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .xi Chapter 1: The Basics What is a bar code? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 How can you benefit from bar coding? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...
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...Kodak Digital Conversion & Archiving June 3, 2005 Marketing Final Project Ron McClurkin Shaina Swartz Eric Goehring Takahiro Degach Table of Contents Introduction & Concept................................................................................................................................3 Demand...........................................................................................................................................................5 Customer Analysis.........................................................................................................................................7 Competitor Analysis......................................................................................................................................9 Competitor Position.....................................................................................................................................13 SWOT Analysis.............................................................................................................................................14 Strengths........................................................................................................................................................14 Weakness................................................................................................................................................
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...8/10/99 (REV’D 8/01/06) HEWLETT-PACKARD COMPANY: NETWORK PRINTER DESIGN FOR UNIVERSALITY INTRODUCTION Sarah Donohoe, manufacturing engineering manager of the network laser printer division at Hewlett-Packard Company (HP), listened intently to her colleagues at the project review meeting for the development of their latest new product. With Sarah at the meeting were Jane Schushinski, marketing manager, Leo Linbeck, head of product design, and David Hooper, the controller of the division. The main topic for this meeting was the decision of whether or not to use a universal power supply for the next generation of network laser printer, code-named Rainbow. Previously, printers in the North American and the European market have distinct power supplies and the associated fusers in the main engine of the printer. For North American printers, a 110 volt power supply was installed. For European printers, a 220 volt power supply was added. This printer engine was built by HP’s manufacturing partner in Japan. Due to the long lead time for engine manufacturing, HP had to specify the requirements of the two types of printers at least fourteen weeks ahead. The time that it takes the Japanese partner to commit the printers for shipments, the transportation times and customs clearance totals about four weeks. Hence, if a universal power supply is used, then HP would have the flexibility of postponing the specification of the printer engine by at least two months in planning process. Consequently...
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...external partners. Tapping into these tools helps logistics executives improve supply chain functionality, productivity, and efficiency—no matter where they are. Origins in the Warehouse The mobility trend began with the use of handheld mobile computers in warehouse and distribution environments, and has since achieved widespread adoption. "Multi-purpose, ruggedized mobile devices work well in distribution environments because they allow warehouse workers to be agile and productive, accomplishing various tasks and processes without being tied to a specific station or area," explains Bruce Stubbs, director of industry marketing for Intermec, an Everett, Wash.-based manufacturer of mobile devices such as handheld computers, bar-code printers, scanners, RFID tags, and voice solutions. Mobile devices can boost picking and packing productivity and accuracy, and help provide a safe, ergonomic, hands-free environment for workers—ultimately resulting in improved customer service for end users. The newest...
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