Essays on Appropriate Technology

Current market conditions competitive analysis

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The research argues that although a gas flaring stoppage is not successfully in-place in Nigeria, fitting the appropriate technology with complementary economic and institutional factors can lead to near-zero or zero gas flaring. Nigeria is a developing country with a unique culture of many tribes and one of the largest growing urban populations in the world. Infrastructural, political and economical challenges to meeting the goal are introduced. Reinjection of gas back into wells is not available as an option to gas flaring because a large region for gas production is wetlands (Buzcu-Guven et al. 2012). Wetlands ...

Operations management is concerned with designing, overseeing and controlling the production processes. It deals with designing and management of processes, products, services and chains of supply (Cornett, Saunders, 9). The acquisition, utilization and development of resources to be delivered by firms to their clients are considered here. Its purvey ranges from tactical to strategic and operational levels. Therefore, the responsibility of ensuring optimal efficiency of operations in a manner that utilizes minimum resources while effectively meeting customers' requirements lies here. Operations management thus directs and manages physical or technical organization functions. These functions relate to ...

Introduction

With the improvement in technology, it has become imperative for organizations to incorporate modern technology in their processes. In order to successfully introduce technology, organizations need to consider a number of factors. This paper explains how the organization can apply to purchase and adopt technology. These topics include communication change, contingent leadership, agile technology, planned vs. emergent change, resistance to change as well as the role of IT people in business.

- Communication change

The introduction of technology will affect almost all business processes and individuals in the organization. Therefore, a company must communicate such changes with the people affected. According to Proctor and ...

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- In the recent past the issues of industrial effluent have continued to be a great problem since it causes environmental pollution and destruction of the biodiversity. - A good example is coca-cola company, it has continuously increased the levels of carbon (IV) oxidized in the atmosphere and increased solid waste. - These wastes from these companies are of the concern to the community as it may result in climate change, and global warming. - The company can control its emission by use of appropriate technology such as recycling of solid waste to reduce pollution. - ...

Communication and Technology – A Response Paper

Summary Summarizing the three articles centers around the primary focus on "Industrial Society and Its Future" by Theodore Kaczynski making this one person's view of how technology in the modern world is restrictive on freedom the framework of all three articles authors' views. The claims of Kaczynski as well as Illich author of Tools of Conviviality, and Schumacher author of Small is Beautiful proclaims how modern technology continues ruining the planet's environment and humanity in general. The message of the Kaczynski article in particular, professes how this ongoing modern technology is the cause of countless types of humanity's ...

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Healthy Communities Nursing Theory and Practice Debora Spartaco d) Primary Health Care‐how have the values and principles of Primary Health Care been reflected in the work you are involved with? How does it directly influence your clients? The Values of The basic principles of primary health care identified in the Alma Ata declaration are to be modified into national health policies so as to sustain the vision of primary health care as part of a comprehensive health care system which is in consonance with other sectors, these principles include Equitable distribution of health care, Community ...

Awareness and Habits in the KSA

Human Resources Management (2761 words)

Change Management: Developing Environmental Sustainability Awareness and Habits in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Sustainability has become the shared goal of people around the world. The United Nations General Assembly has defined sustainability as “improving the quality of human life while living within the carrying capacity of the Earth’s supporting eco-systems” (UN 1987). The concept of sustainability is based on the need for changing to alternative energy sources and the need to respect the natural environment. The possibilities range from living in homes that make use of passive solar energy to living with state-of-the-art technology in smart and intelligent homes. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) ...

The success of any business is dependent on the type of organization structure it adopts. Businesses employing less than fifteen employees may not be stressed with which type of organizational structure to adopt. However, medium or larger business that employ more than twenty people must decide on the type of organizational structure to adopt because such a structure is likely to benefit the owners, employees, managers, lenders as well as investors. This report is therefore concerned with highlighting relevant organizational structure for small, medium, large business types. For every business type, an organizational chart has been used to reflect on ...

Ethernet and token ring protocols are the common wan technologies in use today. Ethernet employs Bus technology where all machines are connected on a backbone. Any data sent from any machine can be transmitted through the network with the condition that the network is free of any other traffic. If the destination of the send packet is not found it is eliminated otherwise it is received at the destined node (Stallings, 2007). Token Ring protocol though has a different approach. Computer systems are interconnected in a loop. There is a monitoring node that controls the movement of data in the loop. Data can ...