1. IBM as a product centric organization before its near failure was a bloated organization with 400 000 employees heavily invested in low margin‚ transactional‚ commodity-based businesses. As technology progressed‚ the demand for IBM’s inventions began to diminish. The entire organizational structure was also growing redundant‚ making it more challenging to face off competition from smaller and less diversified competitors. As Louis Gerstner‚ Jr embarked on turning the entire company around‚ there
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Rise and Fall of the Maya: Research Paper The Maya were a native Mesoamerican group of people who erected one of the most sophisticated cultures in the Western Hemisphere. They inhabited areas in southern Mexico‚ and also surrounding Locations included Guatemala‚ Belize‚ El Salvador and parts of Honduras. The Maya religion civilization came into prominence in 250 A.D.‚ administering a polytheistic approach to worship which included human blood sacrifices to honor their gods or to culminate the crowning
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Introduction The rise and fall of Parmalat was an important event as it highlighted the corporate governance issues in the corporate world of Italy. Parmalat was found by Calisto Tanzi‚ CEO and Chairman‚ in 1961 with a pasteurisation plant in Italy. The company was headquartered in Italy and had grown to be a multinational company into all sorts of milk products‚ beverages and bakery goods. Three decades later‚ in 1990‚ it became a publicly traded entity and was listed on the Milan stock exchange
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distribution to your colleagues‚ clients or customers here or use the "Reprints" tool that appears next to any article. Visit www.nytreprints.com for samples and additional information. Order a reprint of this article now. May 13‚ 2010 The Rise and Fall of the G.D.P. By JON GERTNER Whatever you may think progress looks like — a rebounding stock market‚ a new house‚ a good raise — the governments of the world have long held the view that only one statistic‚ the measure of gross domestic product
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Eastman Kodak: Picture Not So Perfect Article: “For Kodak‚ New Risks in Auction of Patents” By: Dana Mattioli Background: The Ups and Downs For the last 100 years‚ Eastman Kodak thrived as an innovator in the photography arena specializing in graphic communications‚ photofinishing‚ and digital imaging (Spector). As an industry leader‚ Kodak was very profitable with a net profit of $2.5 billion in 1999 and has often been cited as being the “Google” of its day (Economist‚ “The Last Kodak
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Enron’s origins date back to 1985 when it began life as an interstate pipeline company throughthe merger of Houston Natural Gas and Omaha-based InterNorth. Kenneth Lay‚ the former chief executive officerof Houston Natural Gas‚became CEO‚ and the next year wonthe post of chairman. From the pipeline sector‚ Enron began moving into new fields. In 1999‚ the company launched its broadband services unit and Enron Online‚ the company’s website for trading commodities‚ which soon became the largest business
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- Hitler was fully responsible for the order for the mass executions in Poland in 1939 and 1940. He was also actively engaged in setting up plans for a Jewish reservation in Poland and he backed the Madagascar plan. He was continually preoccupied with further deportations and deportation plans. - In 1941 Hitler ordered the extermination of every potential enemy in the occupied Eastern territories. He was fully aware of mass executions of Jewish civilians in the occupied Eastern territories.
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The Demise Of Kodak September 28‚ 2014 The demise of Kodak Many things change with the change in time and technology. Kodak is one of those companies who showed a great path in the field of photography. Kodak played an important role with lots of advertising campaigns aimed at establishing the need to preserve significant occasions such as family events and vacations
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The wild and unexpected technological breakthrough of digital imaging in 1980’s that required Kodak and Fujifilm to radically rethink their very existence. Both the companies saw the disruptive technology coming ahead. Fujifilm cannibalized the film business and Kodak wasn’t able to do it as the reengineering process had to be done. According to Hammer in the book ‘Reengineering the corporations’ reengineering entails the radical redesign of a company’s business process. But while reengineering
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The Kodak Eastman Company was created in 1880 in Rochester‚ New York. George Eastman‚ its founder‚ created film on a roll allowing photographers and developers to take a picture without having to change a plate every time a picture was taken. Next‚ Eastman invented the plain black box camera that had a push button to take pictures and a key to advance the film. When the roll of film‚ normally 100 exposures‚ was complete the photographer sent the entire camera to the Eastman Company in Rochester
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