The Boston Globe has been a staple of New England households since its founding in 1872. Unfortunately nearly 130 years later the paper is faced with a dramatic decline in in readership. Technology which so often is the lifeline that rescues dying industries has, in this case, hastened the decline of the printed paper. It is in this climate that Rick Daniels, Anne Eisenmenger and the rest of the Globe’s staff find themselves contemplating earlier delivery times as a solution to their problem of readership
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only consensus, it seems, is that it needs to change fundamentally or it could all but disappear. At The New York Times, tough times have elevated IT-enabled innovation to the top of the agenda. A research and development group, created in 2006, operates as a shared service across nearly two dozen newspapers, a radio station, and more than 50 Web sites. “Our role is to accelerate our entry onto new platforms by identifying opportunities, conceptualizing, and prototyping ideas,” explains Michael Zimbalist
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Systems in Business CASE 2 27 The New York Times and Boston Scientific: Two Different Ways of Innovating with Information Technology A and the resources to turn their ideas into reality. Typical projects are measured against criteria like revenue potential or journalistic value. R&D projects aren’t. “Since we build software, there’s no huge capital investment up front,” Frons says, “which allows us to experiment. The emphasis is on rapid development.” Times Widgets, a widget-making platform, was
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to no hope of escape. Many gave up hope and feared there were no survivors, after 17 days a small bore hole made its way to the Miners location. As, the world watched with growing concern, and anticipation the miners sent word they were, alive (New York Times, 2012). During a disaster of any scale; clear, concise, and accurate information is needed if there is any hope of having a positive outcome. Even more critical is knowing for whom the communication is intended; delivering the wrong information
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The New York Times and Boston Scientific This case study presents two companies, The New York Times, a publishing company and Boston Scientific, engaged in the field of medical equipment and health; that use information technology in different ways to foster innovation and maintain an edge in their respective industries. The New York Times used a shared service across nearly two dozen newspapers, a radio station and more than 50 web sites. Its role is to accelerate entry onto new platforms by
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Title of article: The Power of the Playground by David Bornstein Project Task : (2) Conflict Source of article: The New York Times, The Opinion Pages Website: http://opinionator.nlogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/07/the-power-of-the-playground/?ref=bullies My article is useful for my project on bullying as we seek effective measures to manage bullying in schools. The article expounds on the concept of “play” that is pivotal in either managing or aggravating the bullying
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Yiwen Yao ENGL 212 7/14/2015 Original Letter in New York Times: More Than a Celebrity To the Sports Editor: Re “Portraying Bill Bradley, a Star Who Had a Sense of Where He Was,” March 29: As Bradley himself has acknowledged, the pressure of celebrity, to be all things to all people, at an age when most of us are just finding our way, was stifling. One reason he decamped to Oxford was to escape its grasp. I’ve always believed that the hallmark of Bradley’s career is not excellence per se, but
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ago near Las Vegas On march 29 1960 a full page advertisement appeared in the New York Times it was called “Heed their rising voices” and the ad was sign by 64 members of clergy and as well as other prominent people. Advertisement complained that the police od Alabama that ring the campus of Alabama state college and padlock the dinign hall in order to intimidate the protesters. That Dr. king had been arrested seven times and acts of violence that was act at the protesters. It appeals the fund to supports
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Facts On February 8th, 1974, members of the Mentor High School wrestling team in Cleveland, Ohio were hospitalized when a fight broke out in a wrestling match against Maple Heights High School. Mike Milkovich, the wrestling coach of Maple Heights High School, outwardly criticized the referees for a series of bad calls during the game, causing tension between the two teams. Because of the coach’s rude comments, Maple Heights was subsequently put on probation for one year and could not participate
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Mississippi revolves around "the help", with complex relations of power, money, emotion, and intimacy tying together the white & black families of Jackson. A USA Today article called it one of 2009's "summer sleeper hits".[1] An early review in The New York Times notes Stockett's "affection and intimacy buried beneath even the most seemingly impersonal household connections" and says the book is a "button-pushing, soon to be wildly popular novel".[2] The Atlanta Journal-Constitution said of the book, "This
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