International Business Research Project: Butterfly effect of Japan´s disaster on global production Professor: XXXXXXX Prepared by: Team X May 28th, 2011 INDEX Content Butterfly Effect of Japan´s Disaster on Global Production. 1- Japan Background a. The relevance of Japan in global production and supply chain b. Economical impact of the Japanese Disaster 2- Impact on global production in important industries a. Automobile Industry
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Manufacturing: A brief global look by ??? April 9, 2011 Manufacturing is a key component of any country’s economy and many comparisons have been made between the United States (U.S.) and other countries. Since World War II the U.S. has been the leader of the manufacturing sector due mainly to the fact that the U.S. industrial plants were not devastated by the destruction of war as where most of Europe and Asia. This paper is a team effort and will give a brief look at the state of manufacturing
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plant; it is considered a technical perspective on the accident. | Risk Analysis Physical hazards have always been a feature of life. In man’s early days there were natural hazards such as earthquakes, weather, and other living organisms (microbes, animals, and fellow human beings). In modem times hazards are increasingly manmade fire, explosions, chemical spills, drugs, pollution, radioactive material, etc. Analysis
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LAB 6 What is the difference between a risk analysis (RA) and a business impact analysis (BIA)? Risk analysis is a technique to identify and assess factors that may jeopardize the success of a project or achieving a goal. Business continuity planning "identifies an organization's exposure to internal and external threats and synthesizes hard and soft assets to provide effective prevention and recovery for the organization, while maintaining competitive advantage and value system integrity”. In
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natural disasters, God has the power to create them. He has the power to save people. By saving people he shows he truly cares about people. In the latest natural disaster that occurred in Afghanistan happened on October 26, 2015. The earthquake was a 7.5 in magnitude and a 4.8 in aftershock. As of now the death toll is 385. That doesn’t sound like an all-loving and all-caring God. But natural disaster is not the only thing God allows as evils but he also allows diseases that are life threatening in
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better and ever more powerful as an influence. However, when a crisis as big as the one that hit Coca Cola in Belgium in 1999 takes a company by surprise, no matter how big it is, no crisis management team can be prepared for a problem of this magnitude. II. CRISIS HITS COKE According to an article written in Junk Science (July 3rd 1999) 33 children from one school suffered from symptoms of nausea, headache, fatigue, palpitations, abdominal discomfort, and malaise after having drunk bottled
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largest economy in the world. As it is surrounded by sea, the country’s port plays an important role in maritime transportation for both exports and imports. In March 2011, the world was affected when Japan was struck with natural disasters (Earthquake and Tsunami). This sudden disaster sent everyone around the world into frenzy. It affected Japan’s ports, shipping and logistics. As a result of the natural disasters, ports in the northern area of Japan had to stop operations after the Tsunami
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Conservation, Protection & Rehabilitation of the Environment & Natural Resources The country is widely acknowledged as having an outstanding endowment of natural resources, which could provide essential ecosystem services to the population. Demands arising from development and utilization activities, population expansion, poor environmental protection, and external factors such as climate change, however, have placed the country’s environment and natural resources under grave threat. For
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disposal/transport management) 3. On the other hand, we have MEDC’s 2. Richer so naturally have more efficient planning and management techniques – homes are built in sound ways/if in seismically active areas, the planning of the buildings is earthquake proof i.e. California where they’re
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brought by typhoons, are inscribed in the Philippine fact book. One of the reasons why reports on disasters are on the rise is due to the country’s geographical location in the Pacific seismic belt that makes it prone to severe tropical storms and earthquakes. Other contributing factors are the vulnerability of citizens including lack of technical materials and extensive trainings of the agencies, which should institute proper mitigation and response to catastrophes. The demands for government leadership
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