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The large initial capital investment needed for new entrants is another major barrier. The cost of machinery and manufacturing is expensive. It is hugely important and costly to have a global presence in manufacturing as it is extremely expensive to ship machinery to clients around the globe.

Collecting information from R&D, Project Teams, Marketing and Strategic Planning will provide the resources, costs, timing, risks, and opportunities associated with products and the market and will indicate their weight on overall operations. Additional information regarding projects probability of success, their ROI, and market life span will help with prioritizing them, deciding which to undertake, and how to introduce them into the market. Project specific information needed would be the phase, launch year, probability of success, projected sales, and pre-launch costs that include R&D, in order to value each project specifically.

b. The character I chose is Eric Harris. Eric’s outward and physical appearance is like every

b) How would you like your readers to describe the personality you present on the page?

Jim McBain is the Director of Veterinary Medicine and Brad Andrews is the Vice President of SeaWorld. McBain and Andrews thoroughly flourish an argument towards defending the captivity of orca whales. They claim that the captivity of mammals is normally difficult to justify as animals are naturally “thinking” beings. Animals exert emotions that deliberately correlate to similarities in humans that expose a variety of characteristics. They defend captivity with the ease of educational research on animals, as their readily available to researchers. Additionally, they reinforce the “hierarchy” of humans and whales, as lesser intelligent creatures that solely fulfill human burdens. However, McBain expressed the opportunity of returning an assortment

11.) Does success seem more or less attainable after reading this book? Why? 12.) Bill Gates is often seen as a self made man who achieved success randomly after working hard for a few years; in this book we analyzed the importance of practice and opportunity which was vital for those like Bill Gates.

For the Customers, Increase awareness on the advanced wastewater treatment plan, allow for customers to realize his will be virtually odor-free and employs the best technology available to treat wastewater before returning it to the environment, and allow customers to see where their money will directly go and the benefits of paying for this new system.

The team will demonstrate that the popularity of these vehicles present a strong opportunity for a leasing company such as ECO-Specialties to enter the market.

In the measure phase, the project team created a timeline for implementation. They drew a process map that estimated a 14-week period for a product to move from a creation request to hitting the market. The simple process map indicated the timeline and procedure for a release cycle. In this case, setting up a delivery time was also an evaluation criterion that defined the project’s success (Yuksel, 2012). Based on its strategic imperatives criteria, the project could be awarded a high grade, but it would be much better if the company goes further to explore what other elements need to be built up at the same time to improve the business (Buthmann, 2016).

High entry barrier due to strict licensing, high start up cost, requirement of special scientific expertise to operate

From a company perspective, training and development of company employees are essential for organizational operation. From an employee perspective, the same factor is critical for skill development and for career advancement. “The retention of valued skill sets, are important for continued business achievements” and as a supervisor it is important to continuously train and develop your staff’s skills (McClelland, 1993). As a supervisor of employees' whose task is to assemble tuning devices that go into cell phones, it is important to investigate why the quality of work has diminished. Training, managerial development and training, and performance

1. Ciputras proactive approach and vision which gave him a forehand as compared to other competitors . He never felt afraid of problems and was open to large scale and complicated projects . He saw

        • The company and product is new and doesn’t possess the consistent capital needed.... [continues]

To start up a small business, companies have to buy or rent a location, purchase stocks, hire staffs, pay utility costs and others. However, all of these costs have to be pay upfront before any profit has been made so this means that start costs are high as well.

James Abrams was an Entrepreneur, who claimed he accidentally fell into that position, however, how does one claim this, after having grown a company from $2 million to $200 million in just 10 years? His primary focus was home-service businesses such as, electrical and heating, plumbing, ventilation and air conditioning. With reportedly, over 1200 employees and on the list of Inc. magazines fastest growing private companies, he was building an empire of sorts, a franchise. This CEO had retired and then decided to retire from retirement stating he was no good at it, so he went back to work and built Clockwork a multimillion-dollar machine.