Essays on Collaborations

Put together a business canvas for E-ink. (Refer to your Business Model Generation reading!)

2. What is E Ink’s unfair advantage (i.e. what does it have that acts as a barrier to entry for its competitors)? E Ink had built strong partnerships with investors and experts that enabled them to propel their products in the market through adequate funding. By the time other companies were trying to explore various types of display technologies, E Ink had already established collaborations with world-class investors (Yoffie and Mack 1). Essentially, the business required large amounts of capital to tackle the financial demand of the venture. For instance, to successfully build a technical display solution, ...

Introduction

A national organization operating in the United States has offices in all four time zones in the country. The organization wishes to complete an important and confidential project within the next three and a half months. The completion of the project will require the formation of a virtual team comprising of mostly senior managers and directors from all major business departments of the organization. For the project to be a success, a team charter needs to be created to direct the different team members on what is required of them. Also, since the team members will be working from ...

Strategic Account Management

Introduction Rapid technological advancement and ongoing globalization brought both advantages and disadvantages for the businesses. It became easier to reach the customers all over the world without moving the assets to the foreign market, but at the same time, the businesses have to become more flexible, adaptable, and innovative to attract and retain customers. As the barriers for entrance were lowered in a lot of fields, the competition increased drastically. Consequently, many companies are searching for the new strategies to attain organizational goals. In the modern business environment, a lot of businesses try to obtain competitive advantage and attain ...

Introduction

The changes occurring in the health sector has been one of the main concerns of health professionals and researchers. Due to the changes of the demographics and health status of patients along with the current technological advances, it has been assumed that the old strategies used could no longer suffice for the current global health concerns. Thus, it is necessary to consider revisions and improvements when it comes to the advancements of medical technology along with the other issues related to the implementation of certain interventions and promotion of the fundamental goals of health development (United Nations Development Program, ...

Business Strategy

Strategic Alliances: A Critical Analysis of Successful Alliances toward Knowledge Creation and Management Introduction Going beyond the current trends in the business literature on strategic alliances, this paper explores ways strategic alliances are helping organizational firms gain competitive edge, more particularly through opening the access to markets and eventually in the creation of knowledge. This is followed by analysis of issues surrounding strategic alliances, current business examples and challenges faced by organizations that form alliances. Finally, we conclude with a brief take on the future of strategic partnership and knowledge creation research.

The Meaning of Strategic Alliance

Since becoming a trend three decades ago, ...

Identifying the Object

The Mondrian dress is a red, blue, white, and yellow dress that shows the integration of art and fashion. One of the renowned French designers, Yves Saint Laurent, designed the dress in the winter of 1965-66 and made it his signature piece. This illustrates that the integration of art and fashion is an old concept, and it remains significant today. The Mondrian dress takes the form of the 1960s modified form of a sack dress, and Laurent utilized the color blocks. Inspired by the contemporary artists of the Mondrian art movement, Laurent incorporated the flat planes derived from 1960s’ ...

Literature Review

In the article, ‘Online Stars and the New Audience: How YouTube Creators Curate and Maintain Communities’, author and researcher Hector Postigo highlights the participatory culture of YouTube and how it manages to capitalize on bringing in valuable funding that is needed to help it not only be more visible but the choice for many successful entrepreneurs and businesses alike . Smith has defined the participatory culture of YouTube by explaining that content creators connect directly with their followers and thus the videos that are shared on the platform are a more personalized communication than mass information broadcast. Not only that, ...

Business Strategy

Strategic Alliances: A Critical Analysis of Successful Alliances toward Knowledge Creation and Management Introduction In today’s business landscape, creating sustainable value for customers and shareholders requires the initiation of an alliance strategy. Strategic alliances are alternative modes of global business operations that small to large enterprises are considering in order to achieve stronger and more effective market presence. Moreover, alliances are a fact of life for business, which needs to align present and future strategy to current radical technological and structural changes, globalization, and increased competitive pressures (Janczak, 2008). Meanwhile, the issues of trust, partner selection, and the ...

Identifying the Object

The Mondrian dress is a red, blue, white, and yellow dress that shows the integration of art and fashion. One of the renowned French designer, Yves Saint Laurent, designed the dress in the winter of 1965-66 and made it his signature piece. This illustrates that the integration of the art and fashion is an old concept, and it remains significant up to date. The Mondrian dress takes the form of the 1960s modified form of a sack dress, and Laurent utilized the color blocks. Inspired by the contemporary artists of the Mondrian art movement, Laurent incorporated the flat planes ...

The Name of Professor:

Introduction The main idea behind the mind of every investor is to achieve long- term growth of his or her business by serving a wider market to increase profitability. However, the existence of various factors such as competition and government regulations tends to impede the successful accomplishment of most investors’ goal. Besides, the efficiency of the strategies implemented by different investors constitutes fundamental hindrances to the realization of their long-term objectives. Therefore, efficient management is crucial to realize business expansion. Additionally, the consideration of other factors with a significant influence on the business environment is essential when formulating the ...

The Case of Mrs. G.: Client Centered Communication and Collaboration How would you best describe Mrs. G.'s feelings about her life, her family, her traditions, and her future? Based on the responses of Mrs. G concerning the issue of being moved to an assisted living facility, one is able to tell and describe her feelings concerning her family, traditions and also worries concerning her future. She is overwhelmed with emotions and fears characterized by anxiety. She is experiencing ‘transition trauma’ because she fears what the decision to transit will mean. Probably she feels that when she moves to the ...

An art movement is a specific period characterized by artists who are driven towards a common goal. The fashion industry has made numerous attempts over the years to associate itself with visual arts and popular artists (The Art Story Foundation, 2016). The collaboration between artists and fashion is mutually beneficial for both parties. Fashion applies art more than most practices in the world to reach a wider and a more popular audience. These collaborations have seen the fashion design industry evolve, innovate and provoke its numerous designs and collections (Blechman, 2013). These collaborations have further been encouraged by common ...

Introduction

Aesthetic music is important in providing listeners with the unique experience that makes them enjoy the rhythm and harmonization of songs. Many people are interested in listening to music that has the ability to present the beauty and human enjoyment desired by fans (Bowman 2). Music needs to fulfil emotional needs of listeners and create the aesthetic valuation in terms of tone, tempos, the taste and judgement (Davis 61). The fact that music has the ability to affect emotions and intellectual capacity of the society means that artists ought to compose and perform songs that offer unique exposure while ...

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Differences between the way work was organized at TCS and at Scotchem

Total Customer Services (TCS) and Scotchem are two disparate organizations with different forms of work organization. TCS is an outsourcing firm dealing with outsourced housing operations while Scotchem is a networked organization which relies on its alliances with suppliers and customers in its chemical manufacturing business. The housing claim processing contract for TCS was seven years and this defined its work organization. The contact between the council and TCS comprised of council workers working on monitoring claims that would have been processed by TCS workers. It was the council which set up weekly targets that TCS had ...

Introduction

A multicultural organization is an organization characterized with a workforce of people from diverse social and cultural backgrounds. The workforce includes people from diverse religious, ethnic, racial and gender backgrounds, including those from minority social cultural backgrounds at all levels and in all departments of the organization (Wang & Chan, 2009). Virtual organizations are organizations primarily supported by technology such as World Wide Web, Internet, telecommunications, EDI, e-mails, videoconferencing and groupware. Organizations have been encouraged to become virtual to derive benefits that include lower overhead, lower labor costs, increased employee morale, more project options and flexibility (Wang & Chan, 2009). The ...

Introduction

In higher learning institutions all over the world, the registrar’s office is accorded the responsibility of a custodian of all the records containing students’ information. In this capacity, the office has varying obligations to several groups including the public, the students, faculties, the members of staff and the respective institution. The registrar’s office must always ensure that it dispenses its duties through compliance with the existing regulations and policies within the institutions they are serving. The office must also conform to the statutory and national regulations and other set standards of the higher education (Specht, 2015).

The Mission, Vision, and Goals of the Registrar's Office

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Collaboration and Collectivity have become central methods of advancing contemporary art. Artists associations, groups, networks, partnerships, and coalitions are terms often mentioned in light of contemporary art. As such, collaboration and collectivity become generic names used when an artist chooses not to work alone, but to come together and co-work with other artists. The collaboration may also entail an artist cooperating with members of a certain community as they all work to realize the objectives of a given project. The slight difference between cooperation and participation comes in the extent of the controls between the parties involved. The collaboration ...

Analysis of Mark Parker's Career

Ups In 2006, Mark Parker became the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Nike, Inc. and since then Nike's annual revenue increased up to 60 percent. In addition, Nike's profit of 57 percent is another visible achievement of Parker. Parker became a prime wheel that helped the Nike, Inc. to double its market cap. Moreover, Parker has embraced innovation as well as prioritizing designs, which became the success of Nike. He is one of three-person design collaboration, alongside Japanese style-maker Hiroshi Fujiwara, designer Tinker Hatfield, and Nike spokes-icon Michael Jordan to form HTM team, which acts as Nike's core Research ...

Alliances commonly known as collaborations are mutual agreements between business entities to share resources and knowledge to expand their operations across borders. Following Globalization and liberalization of economic policies of many countries, accessibility of internal markets have become easier and all business conglomerates have taken the opportunity to gain entry into global markets and increase their business activities. The strategies formulated for entry into foreign markets varies from takeovers, collaborations, acquisition and mergers or setting up plants or retail outlets in other countries. Joint Ventures are preferred over independent establishments as expansion strategies as domestic partners are more familiar ...

Introduction

The history of Islam and Christianity in the context of the western people is based how the West collaborated with the Islamic countries in the Middle East or the conflict that arises between the West and the Western people. During these terrorist attacks, most people and most fingers are often pointed towards the Muslim individuals with a claim that they orchestrate the terrorist attacks on the western land. Such kind of conclusions do not just arise from nowhere but are rather a series of occurrences which cause such kind of utterances from the western people. For instance, when nineteen ...

More often than not, globalization is associated increase in development due to the interdependence between economies. Increased flow of information and technology as a result of globalization has led to the emergence of new economies. From one place to another, globalization has also been associated with the degradation of the moral fabric in some societies. This is especially when more liberal lifestyles from developed nations impact on the conservative lifestyles that people in less developed nations lead. It is surprising that as much attention has not been given to globalization and disease.

Owing to globalization, diseases travel faster than ...

Introduction

Today, contemporary organizations emphasize upon building and maintaining strong relationships not only in the consumer markets but also business markets. Cooperative strategies such as strategic alliances and joint ventures are gaining immense significance in order to achieve sustainable growth and success in the competitive ad uncertain global environment. Business-level and cooperate level cooperative strategies are aimed at achieving short term or strategic objectives of the organization.

Samsung has entered into several successful strategic alliances to gain sustainable competitive advantage and strengthen its market position. Samsung has assessed its core ...

This report gives a detailed assessment of the current internal QUT social technology deployed: Email (Exchange 2010), Lync 2010, Wiki (Confluence), Blackboard, Yammer and SharePoint (2010). It also gives a recommendation on how to leverage an office 365 enterprise ensuite in the University Information Management, collaborative working and communication by the university staff.

The Queensland University of Technology has recently upgraded its information communication technology services. The management has have displayed remarkable efforts in ensuring that it provides sustainable information management structure to both the staff and the students. The university has acquired office 365 subscriptions with licensing for different departments ...

Since the ancient times, it is visible that there is always a gap between societies that often divides them into two or more distinct groups. There are countries that have more political and economic capability than other countries, while there are countries that are better in social stability. In terms of people, they are mostly divided through their financial capability, educational attainment and upbringing, which would then determine as to whether or not they can keep up with the modern world. As far as technology is concerned, people are yet again divided over their capacity to know and afford these ...

Toyota Motor Company (TMC) Vs General Motors (GM) Business Strategies: An Introduction

With the advent of the worldwide economic slump, the automobile sales dropped sharply, causing automobile manufacturers a lot of financial strain. All automobile companies have been much impacted, with the major companies reporting major losses in the last few years. This impacts all the automobile manufacturers comprising of the automobile giants like the General Motors (GM) as well as Toyota Motor Company (TMC). Comparing both the companies i.e. GM and Toyota, it is noted that they lost considerable sales working independently and had to modify themselves in line with these unanticipated conditions. Particularly, the General Motor’s liquidity dropped ...

Instruction

Abstract Conflict circumstances are critical aspects in every institution. A conflict can be defined as a situation where the needs, goals interests or values of involved parties meddle with one another. Therefore, a conflict is a normal occurrence in the workplace among other social settings. Conflict can arise between team members, organizations and clients, projects, departments, organization need vs. personal needs, and a boss vs. subordinate. In many cases, conflict can result from a perception. Conflict is not necessarily a bad thing. This is because it can present opportunities for improvement. As such, it is important to be acquainted with various conflict resolution techniques. ...

Organizational change in companies is influenced by various forces. There are forces that drive the company towards change while other forces prevent the company from changing. The forces that drive the companies towards change include competition, dynamic workforce, internal pressures, political changes, technology, and economic changes. The forces that make companies resist change include resistance from people, and organizational resistances. Apple and Microsoft are two major companies that have undergone organizational change. The two companies have different approaches towards organizational change. Apple and Microsoft have experienced many challenges in their approaches towards change. Apple had an organization that ...

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Introduction

With the higher education industry getting increasingly completive, the current educations system for architecture in UK is struggling to meet the professional models of the 21st century. It is time to throw away the myth that as architects, UK leads the profession in designing. It is time to realize that the whole team is a lot higher than the sum of its parts. What is important for knowledge creating societies is the ethic of collaborations, and one must collaborate to expand. For the first time, The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) is ...

There are certain events in the life of every person which have an important bearing on the rest of his life. Events that in many meaningful ways change the course of life of an individual, by transforming the way he thinks, speaks, carries himself around, and in ways he interacts with the others in his surroundings. Events that change life style for better or for the worse are termed as significant life events (Brannon et al., 2013). 1.1 The significant life events are mainly of two types. These significant life events in the life of an individual are ...

The September 9/11 terrorist attacks exposed the United States’ vulnerability to terrorist attacks. It exposed various loopholes within the national security system that terrorists could exploit to commit atrocious acts that would greatly harm the country (Enders & Sandler, 2005). More than 3000 people died in this terrorist attack, and an even greater number suffered severe injuries. The attacks showed the need for a review of the nation’s security structures and systems and the importance of emergency and disaster preparedness. Even more important, the attacks revealed the need for combined efforts when it came to the prevention and response to ...

Introduction

It is common knowledge that the success of any organization is hugely dependent on the KSA’s (knowledge, skills and abilities) of its employees. Employees are the most important assets of an organization and without proper mechanisms of recruitment, selection and training, the organization may not acquire and retain most effective e employees. In addition, if the mechanism of recruitment, selection and training are not aligned with the organizations’ missions and core values, the organization may ultimately collapse. Employees with high levels of knowledge, skills and abilities drive the organization forwards and propel it towards the achievement of its ...

Introduction

In a bid to increase online and physical presence, many organizations are turning to news releases. This is where a pre-recorded audio of video message featuring various products, and in this case, the designs by Alexander Wang, are sent to news rooms or online news publications in order to inform prospective customers of the availability of said products. This paper will look into the collaboration of Alexander Wang and Hennes & Mauritz. One of the ways in which the collaboration has been celebrated is though media relations and news releases. The paper will evaluate the benefits of a news release to an organization. ...

Abstract

The paper focuses on presenting strategies about the problems that are present in the historically black colleges and universities. Strategies like funds allocation from the local public, training and development programs for the students and awareness campaigns for the student groups in the colleges and universities. Strategies for improving this situation are presented in the paper.

Introduction

The paper will be discussing about the problems associated with the historically black colleges and universities and how can proper strategies help these colleges in overcoming these issues. The most uncomfortable reality about these colleges that are known as historically black colleges and ...

Communication-Comparing Two Events

Introduction Whether it is international or local business, sports or cultural festivals, hosting events provides a country with numerous benefits including provision of employment opportunities to the residents of that particular country. Events and festivals are the building blocks of tourism attraction that forms a significant percentage of gross domestic products. There is a positive correlation between the number of tourists’ attraction and economic growth of a given country. Countries endowed with numerous tourists’ attraction both domestic and international earn relatively high foreign exchange (Ricky, 2010). In addition festivals and events boost national pride as well as encouraging international collaboration. Citizens have ...

Dear Mr. Kaihan,

The marketing strategy course involved learning about marketing paradigms, marketing mix, orientations to marketplace, dimensions to the business environment, market proposition, competency, competitive advantage, sustainable competitive advantage among others. Paradigms are the systems of thought that inform the conventional ideas of how industry and competition should work (Smith, Session 2, slide 17). The course considered the following paradigms; Krippendorf: outthinkers’ habits that are based on frame shifting, disrupting the mindset and shaping perceptions. The second paradigm is the Rapaille paradigm, which deals with the science of selling (market researches and codes) and pricing approaches (dwells on the psychology of ...

The strategic negotiations framework proposed by Walton et al (1994) gives a vigorous theoretical framework that can be used to explain the formation of labor relations in modern firms and how management approaches labor negotiations at the workplace. Strategies related to labor negotiations result from an amalgamation of labor-management interactions at the individual and institutional level (Boxall & Purcell, 2011). The institutional component essentially revolves around collect bargaining and its legitimacy in sustaining the shared understanding or the social contract between the two negotiating parties. The current regulatory environment equips employers with more freedom and discretion on how to deal with ...

Children experiencing childhood in this quick paced engineering based world are imparting much more, with a lot of people more individuals, than children their age from 40 years back, yet they are losing numerous basic social skills. How is this conceivable? Children learn social skills in three ways: they watch social cooperation, they gain from adults what is correct or wrong, and they work on cooperating with their nature's domain. Engineering has lessened human contact so that children aren't taking in the best possible social skills to help them succeed in their grown-up life. Through human contact, children take in ...

INTRODUCTION:

As the technology is changing and developing more and more, the way of doing businesses is altering. Particularly with regards to the internet age, companies now can be benefited from low cost and high speed technology without time and place restrictions. E-business is known to be as the process of sending and receiving information or data through the internet facility whilst receiving orders, placing orders and communicating with the company’s staff (Andreu et al., 2010). Internet is now served as an essential business tool in order to perform efficiently and competitively worldwide. This report has discussed the current ...

Angola’s Musical Background

The history in the development of different music genre in Algeria can be categorized into two periods namely; the colonial period and the post-colonial period. During the colonial period, the music in the country flourished within its borders with little success in gaining international acclaim especially when compared to music from its neighboring countries such as South Africa. The local language Kimbundu formed the focus of the musical tunes although other artists sang songs in the colonizer’s language-Portuguese (Bram 28). However, favor soon fell on the country with development of local tastes in music grew and bands ...

The beginning of the 20th Century was a very exciting time for the entertainment industry. It was a period when the making of films had gained a solid ground. People were awed by this new brand of entertainment where the actions of people could be captured on a device for them to view later. The United States, particularly Hollywood was at the forefront of this industry. It was ahead of other countries when it came to film production and, in fact, most of the first films were made in the 19th Century. However, the rest of the world was not left behind when ...

Shared Decision Making Model

Shared decision making model article by Stacey et al. is an article written to describe the types of shared decision making models as it relates to other major concepts. Those major concepts that are explored in the paper shows show the SDM relates to the aspect of the interprofessional collaboration in the clinical practice. This paper clearly shows the fact that 21st century healthcare management now moves to the area of the patient centered care. This is what distinguishes the models. The area of the SDM depicts the importance of the health professionals especially in the areas of the ...

STRATEGIC OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT OF TOYOTA

- CRITICAL IMPORTANCE OF STRATEGIC OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT TO A WORLD CLASS COMPANY In the contemporary world, businesses provide a great of attention to the operations management of operations of activities. It is for the reason that organizations are evaluation by the quality and strength of its operations’ performance and not only by the claims that organizations make. Simply stating operations management is concerned with the activities of transformation of input into output. This three element process includes the role of material, skills, energy, information and capital and so on in best mix which in turn produces output that is ...

Windows SharePoint services are a dominant web application developed by Microsoft. It comprises of common web tools and is closely integrated with office tools to help organizations plan, create, implement and manage intranets, document management services, portals and team collaborations platforms. There are so many ways in which this company can benefit from Microsoft Windows SharePoint. The services that the software package provides offers great benefits to an organization that has so many branches and user computers spread out both geographically, and in terms of access and use. The following are the benefits the package offers.

Benefits of using windows SharePoint services

1 familiar and easy-to-use ...

Health social determinants are defined by the WHO (World Health Organization) (2012) as “the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work and age, including the health system. These circumstances are shaped by the distribution of money, power and resources at global, national and local levels, which are themselves influenced by policy choices. The social determinants of health are mostly responsible for health inequities – the unfair and avoidable differences in health status.” The WHO definition demonstrates the many layers of complex issues that are involved in determining who has good health and who does not have good health. ...

Innovation and Commercialization in Canada

It is one thing to come up with an invention and another to manufacture the item and sell it to potential consumers. This is the essence of the Canadian commercialization gap. The country has world class innovators but a less than impressive commercialization record. Entrepreneurs and scientists develop new products every day but these ideas rarely materialize and whenever they do, they rarely make it to the mass market. Despite decades of innovation Canada when compared to other developed countries. Compared to other 15 peer countries that are leading in innovation, Canada was ranked 13th. These finding were reported ...

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Accountable Care Organizations (ACO)

ACO aims to facilitate cost effective and quality healthcare to individuals through developing appropriate linkages between different categories of healthcare systems, providers and institutions with the patients who are willing to be channelized through these entities. In order to ensure that the patient receives the right healthcare treatments and benefits especially with regard to cost and quality, there is need for integrating and sharing lot of specific information regarding the patient and associated aspects to and from multiple sources. The different instances of data exchanges required for integrating healthcare institutions, financial providers, insurance providers, etc with individuals ...

Introduction

Employee engagement can be defined in various ways. However, it can be generally referred to as the ability and willingness of employees to help the organization in which they are employed achieve its objectives. This is achieved by the employees providing their services in a discretional way and in sustainable circumstances. Employee engagement entails two main aspects; psychological and HR practice. The psychological aspect involves the kind of job one is doing, the resources at the employee’s disposal and the experience one goes through during the engagement. Furthermore, the ability of the organization to empower its employees and its ...

The American Academy of Forensic Sciences is an organization of diverse community which has been serving its members for 65 years already. It's main focus to take the lead in discovering ways to use forensics in aid of legal services It is focused towards educating, promotion of research activities, improving ways of applying the results of these researches and to spearhead collaborations between and among organizations working in the field of forensic sciences. This organization is headed by the Board of Directors and has eleven specialized departments. (American Academy of Forensic Sciences, 2013) This organization is one of ...

The criteria used to determine inductees into the rock and roll hall of fame is consistency in the music business characterized by ability to spawn great and successful hits for 25 years after release of an artist’s record, and an artist’s significance and influence. With this regard, I believe the following artists are likely inductees into the Rock and Roll hall of fame in the future. These are Rihanna, Adam Levine, Lil Wayne, Wiz Khalifa, and Kanye West. The ensuing paragraph lists the reasons why these artists have what it takes to be inducted, a feat every musician ...

Business

Corporate community, collaborations helped to improve the public image of Unilever Company. From the case study, it led to the destruction of the environment through converting of rain forests into palm plantations. This conversion led to incidences of soil erosion, water pollution and relocation of indigenous people. This created a negative image for the company. Participation in sustainable development programs helped the company in solving labor disputes. Also, it led to the improvement of the recruitment process. The company was paying low wages to its employees. The need to increase employee loyalty made the company engage in the, corporate community, ...

Situation Analysis of EMWATCH

Introduction A company such as EMWATCH Incorporation has to be aware of both its internal environment and its external environment. Such information includes change in consumer tastes and preferences, market trends, its strengths and weaknesses and the overall market environment in which it operates in. The process whereby EMWATCH makes an analysis of its internal and external business surroundings is what is referred to as a situation analysis. The process involves the collection of new data and also the study of past data in order to gain an understanding of the market trends, market conditions and market forces that ...

Introduction

Collaborations among non-profit organizations and other entities provide an opportunity to share information and resources. It is imperative because it enhances information and resources to reach larger communities, expand developmental programs and services. Additionally, it leverages the comparative strengths of partners hence creating change more effectively. However, collaboration is effective during the times when there is an increase in the needs and decrease in the available resources. This implies that collaboration can act as an innovative approach used to build programs with limited resources because it gets support from funders. However, for collaboration to turn out successfully there must ...

Since the term was first used in the year 1982 by Keith Oliver, an expert in personnel management, no clear definition has been established for this concept that has turned out to be one of the most effective ways of actualizing the presumption that the 21st century is a customer century (Taylor 1). The concept, which started gaining prominence in the 1990s, is one of the most important techniques in contemporary business practice. Though there is no clear definition, the term can be said to mean a system of controlling the movement of work in progress, raw materials, finished products and ...

Introduction

Narragansett Bay is an important resource for tourism, recreation, fishing, manufacturing, maritime transportation, shipbuilding, and defense (Oakley et al. 2012). It is a micro-tidal estuary located in the eastern Rhode Island and the southeastern Massachusetts. Over the years, erosion has been prevalent, as depicted by a sudden, dramatic change in the shape of the beaches. Much of this erosion is attributed to human activities. In fact, People are directly responsible for the erosion problems. Instead of protecting the beaches, people have engaged in various activities that continue to degrade the beaches (Oakley et al. 2012). Such activities include constructing buildings near ...

Nursing fellowships have increased over the last couple of years. In the nursing profession, situations and various medical conditions are changing while new ones develop. Nurses are constantly facing new and complex challenges while attending to their duties. Introduction of nursing fellowship programs is oriented to address these situations by equipping the nurses with current and evidenced-based technology. Organizations such as the ACS (American College of Surgeons) and various groups in the medical field are providing more information regarding the best trauma practices. Additionally, they are ensuring that there is improved trauma care all over the world. Nursing ...

I agree that two possible reasons for failure of team collaborations is ego and introvert persons. These two affects the team’s communication which is very essential to have a successful team. With ego and introvert persons, the contributions they may give to the success of the project like their ideas may not be fully blown. They have a tendency that they may not voice out their ideas even if these are good because they may be afraid that other members will not like them.

Building Trust Among Virtual Teams

I agree that trust takes time to establish and reliability and consistency are two helpful characteristics ...

Introduction

Since the onset of the fiber optic technology, communication barriers have been broken and the virtualization of teams has been possible. The objective of this chapter is to analyze the significance of virtual teams and their management in software development. The paper defines virtual teams and discusses their importance, their types, and the tools used by them for collaboration. It also analyzes the challenges faced by these teams in terms of management, collaboration, and coordination. The various virtual platforms used by these teams, such as cloud computing, are discussed. A secondary literature analysis is conducted to understand the role ...

Cognition

Apple Inc., through the Apple corporate strategy, teamwork, experienced and highly talented management, has managed strategic decisions that have enabled it to realize unmatched success as well as market sustainability. Of key importance are the cognitive strategies that make up the overall business model at Apple. The cognitive strategy serves to support Apple’s strategic forces by enabling it to develop internal strategies for managing complex issues within the organization. As such, the use of cognitive strategies enables the company to increase efficiency with respect to the way it addresses particular tasks. These includes but not limited to development ...

This is a structural system that does not hold the formal rules and regulations in an organization. It usually has no standardized procedures in handling the daily problems. In this system, hierarchies are not applicable and the system is low on formalization. It is best suitable for temporary goals. The system is highly flexible and very responsive in handling urgent situations, both quickly and efficiently, especially in dynamic environments (Abrahamson, 1993; Buchanan, 1985; Robbins, 1994; Bilton and Bonnet, 1997). Here, there is high horizontal specialization of jobs and the employees are professionals. A large part of the organization is ...