workers, transferring staff from one department to another, hiring temp staff seasonally, offering pay cuts over termination. Setting up an alternative plan of employment, job fairs, offer classes in the severance packages. Do more in-house training, insourcing instead of outsourcing projects. When companies go the put forth the extra effort to execute a plan properly, they gain the respect of everyone. Conclusion Here is the solution to survive a reorganization of a business. There
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LA TIERRA ES PLANA BREVE HISTORIA DEL MUNDO GLOBALIZADO DEL SIGLO XXI La tierra es plana se enfoca en mostrarnos la historia de la globalización desde el descubrimiento del Nuevo Mundo hasta hoy. Este libro habla de la globalización de una manera sencilla, como una realidad que nos afecta a todos. Se presenta un recuento histórico del desarrollo de la globalización, desde el descubrimiento del Nuevo Mundo hasta nuestros días. Thomas Friedman se dedica a contar como una serie de empresas
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR Thomas Loren Friedman was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on July 20, 1953, and grew up in the middle-class Minneapolis suburb of St. Louis Park. He is the son of Harold and Margaret Friedman. From an early age, Friedman, whose father often brought him to the golf course for a round after work, wanted to be a professional golfer. He was captain of the St. Louis Park High golf team; at the 1970 U.S. Open at Hazeltine National Golf Club, he caddied for Chi Chi Rodriquez, who came
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Evaluación financiera de proyectos UNIVERSIDAD DE LA SABANA ESCUELA INTERNACIONAL DE CIENCIAS ECONÓMICAS Y ADMINISTRATIVAS Chía, Noviembre de 2015 Stryker Case Questions 1. State the business case for option 3, the PCB InSourcing proposal. Option #3 was for Stryker Instruments to manufacture its own PCBs in its own facility near company headquarters in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Once such a facility was up and running, it might be expanded to supply PCBs to other Stryker businesses
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The Vanderbilt Law Review article, “Outsourcing and Insourcing Crime: The Political Economy of Globalized Criminal Activity,” defines transnational crime networks and presents globalization as the source of their success. “Selling Souls: The Effect of Globalization on Human Trafficking and Forced Servitude”
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Notes on The World is Flat (Friedman, 2006) Summary and excerpts from Thomas Friedman’s The World is Flat (2006) by Bill Altermatt CHAPTER 2: THE TEN FORCES THAT FLATTENED THE WORLD page 1 What Tom Friedman means by the phrase “The World is Flat” is that “the global competitive playing field is being leveled…It is now possible for more people than ever to collaborate and compete in real time with more other people on more different kinds of work from more different corners of the planet and
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order qualifiers (point 7) 12 7. Lesson 3, Supply management (chapter 7) 13 7.1. Chapter objectives 13 7.2. Identify and describe the various steps of the strategic sourcing process. 13 7.3. Spend analysis (point 2) 14 7.4. Differences between insourcing and outsourcing (point 4) 15 7.5. Portfolio analysis (point 3) 16 7.6. Multi criteria decision (point 6) 17 7.7. Negotiations and the purpose of contracts (point 7) 18 7.8. Procure-to-pay cycle (point 8) 18 8. Lesson 4 Logistics (chapter 8)
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Developing ‘Savory Rosti’ crisps at Dreddo Dan’s p.205 Case synopsis This case exercise covers many issues found in new product and service development projects. In particular, the case examines a new type of product that is to be launched in an uncertain and unpredictable market and also carries some development risks. Above all, the project is a significant development for the company, with both the potential for major competitive benefits and some downside risk. Monica Allen, the Technical VP
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Workflow software created a global platform for multiple forms of collaboration. The fourth flattener, outsourcing, is the first new form of collaboration empowered by this global communication platform. Offshoring, open-sourcing, supply chaining, insourcing and informing are flatteners four, five, six, seven, eight, and nine respectively. These new forms of collaboration are also empowered by global communication platforms. The last flattener, Friedman nicknames “The Steroids,” which is the wireless
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Describe the forces that drove globalisation. * Berlin Wall/ Communism * Windows * World Wide Web (WWW) * Work Flow Software / Standards * Uploading * Outsourcing * Offshoring * Supply-chaining * Insourcing * Informing * Digital, Virtual, Mobile, Personal 6. Describe the challenges that globalisation has created. * The challegenes of globalisation are: * Industrial * Financial * Economic * Political
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