Introduction Intellectual capital (IC) and knowledge management (KM) have become critical buzzwords in the business lexicon. This is particularly true of companies such as Riordan Manufacturing, a company which produces high-tech, cutting edge materials for the plastics industry and sells them to a variety of firms around the world. This paper will survey how Riordan currently deploys these concepts and also explore potential areas for future improvement. IC: Vision and strategy Intellectual capital consists
Community (IC). Due to Cargill’s long history in the grain trade they developed a sophisticated global corporate intelligence organization that was lauded by Robert Bergland, former secretary of agriculture, when he stated "they (Cargill) probably have the best crop-marketing intelligence available anywhere, and that includes the CIA." In some ways, the executive leadership of Cargill, Inc. operate like Office of the Director of National Intelligence. Cargill also differs from the IC on several
CASE STUDY: IT Professional Services, ICS Services Pty Ltd. The implementation of the CRM is now in disarray. Identify the problems in the acquisition and implementation process that may have contributed to this state of affairs. Why did these problems arise? The case analysis on the CRM implementation at ICS indicates that there are arrays of problems that are evident in respect to such process of CRM implementation. The problems are evident mainly with respect to the acquisition as well as the
Sharp Corporation SHARP CORPORATION: Technology Strategy Summary Sharp Corporation was established in 1912 by Tokuji Hayakawa as a small workshop. The Company was a small, second-tier assembler of TV sets and home appliances which competed mainly on price. However in the early 1970 Sharp Corporation focused on technologies which competitors ignore , developed expertise in certain electronic devices, such as integrated circuits and liquid crystal displays (LCD) and used them to develop innovative
techniques to meet company needs for making major decisions with data consisting of clear goals, a planned design, high ethics, revealed limitations, adequate analysis, and justified conclusions (Cooper and Schindler, 2003). In this paper, the methods of net present value and internal rate of return are examined based on real-world capital budgeting decisions. This paper also gives insight on valuation techniques used to determine internal and external investment decision strategies and the risk associated
the organization before Ghosh arrived to the company? * In spite of the small size of the company, with 25 employees and a potential business because of the new cellular industry, there was a lack of organization and administration in the company. * Everyone was doing just what they felt like, people where arriving late at work, did things on their own time and the customer service was very poor. * The company had a problem with financial planning and
technological progress in all its procurement or else it would choose more competitive products. Specifically, Wal-Mart outlines some of the ways product design is applied in decision making, most obviously surrounding waste reduction and promoting how the company is reducing environmental throughput in product selection. The first reason is cost reduction, but the second can presumably be driven by consumer preference for sustainable products and perceptions, where consumer perceptions also include those of
Hawkins needs to promote a sense of urgency and to communicate the importance of the switch for the organization. The next most important step is to have employees get compensated by commission, thus offering a highly competitive environment. The best strategy is to base the social gaming division in Digital Chocolate's Barcelona location. The group in Barcelona is “energetic, young, creative and passionate” employees all skilled in creative development. Also, incorporate the deep smarts provided by Saurin
with innovative solutions to the most pressing social problems of the solutions of the company. They are ambitious and persistent, tackling major social issues and offering new ideas for big changes. Instead the social needs of the government or business sectors, finding the social partners, who are not working and solve the problem by moving the contractor 's system, spreading the solution and see all companies in different directions . Social entrepreneurs often seem to be possessed by their ideas
successful in the past, times have changed and the company and products should change with it, otherwise we probably lose market share to the tremendous increased number of competitors in no time.At the height of early mornings and late nights, Red Bull energy drink became the fuel of choice for people from all walks of life. So how is Red Bull marketing its brand to meet the changing needs and budgets of its customers? How will the privately owned Austrian company expand its product line beyond the silver-bullet