religious foresight Outsider (e.g. Nostredamus) State-run/scientific/supranational institutions Military futurologic research MIT) Technology assessment Economic, political, Science and Technology resource-oriented (e.g. RAND Corporation, Forecasting (e.g. Delphi future research (e.g. UN studies,offices for technology Millenium Project, assessment) OECD, political Think Tanks) Foresight (e.g. EU projects, Regional Foresight FUTUR Dialogue) Modern Age 1940-1960 1970 1990 2000 1980 Medieval
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Executive summary The principal activities of the Coca-Cola Company are the manufacture, distribution and marketing of nonalcoholic beverage concentrates and syrups. The Group owns or licenses and markets more than 500 nonalcoholic beverage brands, primarily sparkling beverages. Coca-cola also distributes a variety of still beverages, such as waters, enhanced waters, juices and juice drinks, ready-to-drink teas and coffees, and energy and sports drinks. Coca-Cola manufactures, or authorizes
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crop protection and animal health businesses. From the 1980s Ciba-Geigy used corporate portfolio planning to steer the corporate portfolio. The goal of corporate portfolio planning was to improve the process of resource allocation and performance assessment. The main idea was to differentiate the businesses – to give them different objectives, different types of managers, and to allow them to adopt the organization structure that was appropriate for each business. Before that, Ciba-Geigy had relied
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Scientific Research and Essay Vol.4 (11), pp. 1260-1270, November, 2009 Available online at http://www.academicjournals.org/SRE ISSN 1992-2248 © 2009 Academic Journals Full Length Research Paper The role of science and technology education at network age population for sustainable development of Bangladesh through human resource advancement Gazi Mahabubul Alam Faculty of Education, University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. E-mail: gazi.alam@um.edu.my. Tel: +6037967 5077. Fax + 603-7967
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SCOTTISH ENTERPRISE BORDERS EVALUATION OF CASHMERE MADE IN SCOTLAND PROMOTION 2001-2003 1. INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background In recent years UK manufacturing has suffered the effects of increased global competition from low cost manufacturers in the developing economies. The lower cost of materials, particularly labour, has forced UK manufacturers to maximise efficiency and production techniques to enable them to compete. Partly as a consequence, many manufacturing
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measures 6 Abstract 7 1 Introduction 8 1.1 Research objectives 9 1.1.1 General objectives 9 1.1.2 Specific objectives 9 1.2 Research methodology 9 2 Literature review on the global value chain (GVC) of coffee 11 2.1 Theory of global value chains 11 2.1.1 Introduction to the value chain concept 11 2.1.2 Global commodity chains 12 2.1.3 Value chain analysis 13 2.1.3.1 Definition 13 2.1.3.2 Methodological aspects of value chain analysis 15 2.1.4 Governance 15 2.1.5 Barriers to entry and
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The US economy is expected to grow at a really slow pace given the fiscal outlook and government cuts in spending. It is unlikely that there will be a government stimulus package in 2012 and the reason being a divisive politics in congress and also the piling up of the public debt. Fiscal policy in the past years helped to stimulate the economy especially after the inauguration of Barack Obama. Obama signed into law 787 billion dollar stimulus package in 2009 and helped the economy to gain a boost
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ExxonMobil 2011 Financial Statement Analysis and Assessment Shepherd University Abstract ExxonMobil Corporation is one of the World’s largest companies by both gross revenue and net income. Total revenue finished at $486.4 billion for 2011 and net income was $41 billion, increases of $103.2 billion and $10.6 billion respectively. ExxonMobil continues to see solid returns in both their Upstream and Downstream business areas; while the Chemical business area after a major earnings increase
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The CEO is Alan R. Mulally, Ford revenue is $134.3 billion (2012), their profit $ 5,665 billion (2012), and they have 164,000 (2011) employees (Ford, 2013). Toyota is the thirteenth largest automobile maker in the world by revenue it is founded in Japan. Toyota was the largest manufacturer in 2012 by production (Toyota, 2013). The CEO is Akio Toyoda, Toyota revenue is18.583 Trillion (2012), their profit 283.33 billion (2012), and they have 300,747 (2012) employees (Toyota, 2013). Comparison Tables
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Physics pre-assessment research task 1. Describe de Broglie’s proposal that any kind of particle has both wave and particle properties De Broglie suggested that if light can behave as both a wave and as a photon, particles could also have dual character. He proposed that all particles had wave properties as well as particle properties. He proposed that the wavelength is inversely proportional to the momentum of the particle, now known as the de Broglie wavelength of a particle and given by,
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