British inventor Edward de Bono coined the phrase "lateral thinking" as a counterpoint to conventional or vertical thinking. In conventional thinking people go forward in a predictable, direct fashion. Lateral thinking involves approaching the problem from new directions – literally from the side. De Bono defines the four main aspects of lateral thinking as: The recognition of dominant polarizing ideas The search for different ways of looking at things A relaxation of the rigid control of vertical
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The roots of domestic partnership go back to 1981, when San Francisco considered legislation to provide benefits to unmarried couples. “Domestic partners” soon became a legal term used by private and public employees to extend benefits to an employee’s unmarried partner of the same sex. In 1982 The Village Voice in New York City became the first private employer to offer domestic partnership benefits. In 1995, Vermont became the first state to offer domestic partnership benefits to its public
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ZIPCAR Case 1. Who are Zipcar’s primary stakeholders, and what are their particular interests? Zipcar’s primary stakeholders include their internal claimants, which are the executives and employees such as Scott Grffith; chairman and CEO, Steve Case; board of director, Ed Goldfinger; CFO, and Mark Norman; President and COO. Their particular interests are to drive Zipcar forward giving it strategic growth. They also aim maintain the business model and operations while maintaining focus on customer
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Klassetrin 1.G til 3.G HTX Dato Fysik Formelsamling Resume En samling af ligninger, konstanter og tabelværdier til faget fysik. Skrevet af Kristian Thostrup og Kim Hansen, designet af Kasper Grønbak Christensen. Velegnet til gymnasieelever på alle klassetrin. Formateret og redigeret til papir- og digital version. Kilde http://www2002159.thinkquest.dk Copyright Indhold, Kristian Thostrup og Kim Hansen (TEC Frederikshavn) Design, Kasper G. Christensen (TEC Lyngby) [05-07-2008] [FYSIK FORMELSAMLING]
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BRAND POSITIONING EVOLUTION—Positioning is the last step in the marketing strategy formulation. Marketing strategy begins with identification of market segmentation and later choosing a target for marketing activity. The term ‘position’ in a physical sense is used to refer to or specify the place or location of an object. The marketing battle is not fought for acquiring a geographical unit but to win customers or market share. Retailers or the end users are usually the targets of the marketing
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The Choice of FreedomSean O'DonnellNetworking Essentials DL1 – CSIT 184Week 15 Professor Buchannan AbstractThe purpose of this paper is to answer why hacking and malware are so intrinsically linked to the Internet, why it is so hard to stop , and what choices we have to make, as a community as a result of it. A theory that Jonathan Zittrain proposes is that the internet is a “generative system.” A generative system is a system with “the capacity to produce unanticipated change through
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Enterprise Rent-A-Car: Measuring Service Quality SURVEYING CUSTOMERS Kelvin Kirkman wheeled his shiny blue BMW couple into his driveway, put the gearshift into park, set the parking brake and got out to check his mail box as he did every day when he returned home. As he flipped through the deluge of catalogs and credit card offers, he noticed a letter from Enterprise Rent-A-Car. He wondered why Enterprise would be writing him. THE WRECK Then he remembered. Early that month, Kelvin had been
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Unit 7.Exercise 1. Fiber Optics--Definitions Cross Talk- Fiber-optic cabling is immune to crosstalk because optical fiber does not conduct electricity and uses light signals in a glass fiber, rather than electrical signals along a metallic conductor, to transmit data. So it cannot produce a magnetic field and thus is immune to EMI. Waveguides- A structure that guides electro-magnetic waves along their length. The core fiber in an optical fiber cable is an optical waveguide FTTH- Fiber to the
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The Update Do you believe that the winners should take it all? In this paper I will discuss the existing plan, the proposed plan, how to score the two of the processes, and the ethical issues regarding an open system. As the report states, “Who could complain when there is actually merit money for pay raises” (Miller, 2009, p.1). During the deans meeting, Jeff Foreman, was one of the leads in discussing handling salary increases differently in the future. This would give fewer people more money
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