Semester 1, 2012 Week 9: Innovation II Product Innovation Dr Gary Buttriss 9.1 What is a product-service system? What may be the impact on its own sustainability of a corporation currently providing products moving towards a product-service system? (See especially reading 9.1.) Answer • What is a product-service system • “A marketable set of products and services capable of jointly fulfilling a user‟s need. The product/service ratio in this set can vary, either in terms of function fulfillment
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Hart content strategy & competition Low-income markets present a prodigious opportunity for the world’s wealthiest companies — to seek their fortunes and bring prosperity to the aspiring poor. 1 With the end of the Cold War, the former Soviet Union and its allies, as well as China, India, and Latin America, opened their closed markets to foreign investment in a cascading fashion. Although this significant economic and social transformation has offered vast new growth opportunities for
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a positive concept emphasizing social and personal resources, as well as physical capacities. In recent years, much evidence has been accumulated which shows just how important the planning of physical, social, and economic environment in which we live and work is to our health. Conversely, physical planning systems are the methods used by the public sector to influence the distribution of activities in spaces of various scales (Andreas and Bas, 2002). Also, it is a process intended to promote sustainable
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CHAPTER 4 Consumer Motivation LEARNING OBJECTIVES After studying this chapter students should be able to: 1. Understand the types of human needs and motives and the meaning of goals. 2. Understand the dynamics of motivation, arousal of needs, setting of goals, and interrelationship between needs and goals. 3. Learn about several systems of needs developed by researchers. 4. Understand how human motives are studied and measured. CHAPTER SUMMARY Motivation is the driving force
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LONG RUN: The Economics of Growth LEARNING OBJECTIVES After reading and studying this chapter, you should be able to: ̈ Understand that economic growth is due to growth in inputs, such as capital and labour, and to improvements in technology. ̈ Understand that capital accumulates through savings and investment. ̈ Understand that the long run level of output per person depends positively on the savings rate and negatively on the rate of population growth. ̈ Understand that
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Learner’s Resource Identify marketing opportunities Certificate IV in Business (Marketing) TF/310/BSB/057/LP Learner’s Resource D]Yjf]j¾k J]kgmj[] Certificate IV in Business (Marketing) Identify market opportunities BSBMKG302A TF/310/BSB/057/LP © Australian Training Products on behalf of the State of Victoria This work is copyrighted. Apart from any use permitted under the Copyright Act 1968, no part may be reproduced by any process without prior written permission from Australian Training
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origin, sex, religion, age, or disability in the administration of the testing program or the provision of related services. PREFACE The State Board for Educator Certification (SBEC) has developed new standards for Texas educators that delineate what the beginning educator should know and be able to do. These standards, which are based on the state-required curriculum for students—the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS)—form the basis for new Texas Examinations of Educator Standards (TExES)
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crore on Ramalinga Raju, the Satyam Computer Services Ltd's founder and former chairman, and his brother B Rama Raju and Rs 20-25 lakh each on the remaining accused. HT presents a lowdown of the country's biggest-ever corporate accounting scandal . What is the Satyam scam about? It is about corporate governance and fraudulent auditing practices allegedly in connivance with auditors and chartered accountants. The company misrepresented its accounts both to its board, stock exchanges, regulators, investors
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