... defining start points and end points of your planning One stake defines where you are now andthe other defines where you want to be inthe future Neither can be absent from your story since they ... saying the leader is responsible for setting the vision and facilitating the executive team in developing the vision statement and ultimately, for being the cheerleader for the field of vision The ... sophistication The customers connect with both the product andthe partnership between them andthe builder The employees understand the product and connect to the meaning of their job The latter...
... helicopters and vehicles by abrading rotor blades inthe former and clogging air filters inthe latter Sand is also harmful to the turbine blades in tank engines, causing them to thin and eventually ... inspection and repair (STIR) In addition to performing such routine maintenance tasks as inspecting parts to determine whether they need replacing, testing and adjusting controls, and repairing ... has left the theater The Army, however, has seven times more equipment inthe theater than the Marine Corps has andinthe past has required more than twice the reset funding Furthermore, the Army...
... occludens-domain-containing proteins such as syntenin, Ga-interacting protein (GAIP)-interacting C-terminus ⁄ synectin and calcium ⁄ calmodulin-associated serine kinase, since the C2 region contains a ... catalytic domain with a zinc-binding site (Zn, HEXXHXXGXXH) and a conserved methionine (Met-turn) supporting the catalytic zinc Interaction between cysteine–zinc maintains proMMPs in an inactive state ... syndecans, and are endopeptidases belonging to the family of metzincins (zinc endopeptidases) which contain three major multigene families: seralysins, astacins and a disintegrin and metalloproteinase...
... fourth and final banking crisis they identify occurred at the end of 1932 andthe beginning of 1933, culminating inthe nationwide suspension of banks in March The 1933 crisis and suspension was the ... This has been informed by the experience of the U.S Savings and Loan industry debacle of the 1980s, the banking collapses in Japan and Scandinavia during the 1990s, and similar banking system debacles ... banking panics inthe United States between the Civil War and World War I., and prior to the Civil 17 War, there were other nationwide banking crises in 1819, 1837, and 1857 Inthe 1920s, the...
... enter the market and find opportunities to make high profits They will introduce products with new features, more and more, build more selling point, and this will expand the market increasing the ... activities to obtain growth and stay ahead inthe market of King Do mooncake business, we can take on board and have some solutions to make the business stand out inthe market and get highest profits ... the following three issues are satisfied: -Timing of launch: When facing the danger of cannibalizing the sales of the company's other products, if the product can be improved further, or if the...
... HRIRs andthe corresponding HRTFs originates from diffraction, shading and resonances on the head and on the pinnae [14] Also reflections and diffractions of the sound from the torso in uence the ... structure of the head which are not present inthe head model have a strong in uence Inthe following, the ITDs and ILDs obtained from the measurements are examined in more detail 3.3.1 ILD The ILDs ... compared to the model ILD This effect is not present inthe ILDs between the hearing aids and therefore must originate from the pinnae 3.3.2 ITD The ITDs between the in- ear microphones and a microphone...
... basis Members of the marketing profession have long been interested in understanding the strategies, capabilities, and options of their rivals Gaining the insight required to so is the essence of ... primarily exploratory; they are intended to be built upon as the qualitative methods of intelligence and other business disciplines become increasingly linked These efforts are not intended to be a ... data and it balances the rigor with which data is gathered with (1) the relevance and timeliness of the information being sought and (2) the needs to which it is to be put The time has come for the...
... who, inthe process of joining into the action, intuitively learns what is going on and why certain decisions are made Marketing ethnographers are able to unravel the true mainsprings underlying ... routine and performed within the limits of the law It is legal and mundane, for example, to go to a factory and note if the parking lot is full during the second shift; doing so can be routinely ... process may involve actively transcending the marketplace (including analyzing how a particular management team thinks and typically reacts) Nonetheless, marketing’s achievements in applying the qualitative...
... distorted, other people could still understand what was being said because the underlying structure of the language exists inthe minds of both the speaker andthe listener The existence of these linguistic ... between themselves and other qualitative methods in business In today’s world, many qualitative methods exist and many of them have become institutionalized within the business world Initially, ... an exchange Because Alderson was willing to investigate the subjective inner workings of the human mind, his model reflected the individual opinions and feelings of specific social actors (Alderson...
... of intelligence is using weak, compromised, and/ or incomplete data in order to infer useful information The process of drawing inferences from diverse scraps of information and weaving them into ... other things, “shadowing” a certain product line and using the resulting information when developing strategies and tactics If our organization performs the same shadowing procedures as the competition, ... investigation Developing these skills and knowledge is costly and time consuming And yet, this is the only way in which professionalism can be developed inthe intelligence analyst Grooming intelligence...
... possess an interest in market intelligence Thus, McGonagle and Vella continue by observing that The primary (and often the only) customer of market intelligence is the marketing department andthe ... take into account both the time frame andthe specific needs of the client Gathering Data The analyst must gather data as required and/ or coordinate the research efforts of others Competitive intelligence ... CONCEPT Increasingly, the marketing function has been elevated from a subordinate to a dominant position This book, in line with these trends, views marketing as the pivotal strategic discipline and...
... actually join into the behavior being investigated and become an active participant The rationale for doing so is that, inthe process of interaction, the researcher gains an intuitive understanding ... accompanied the industrial revolution demanded a rethinking of the way in which people related to society and to each other The humanities played a major role inthe process of reexamining the world and ... engineering is a technical activity It involves gaining examples of a particular product and then dismantling them in order to better understand how they were made and/ or how they operate Having...
... upon the individual or the distinctiveness of the circumscribed group.1 There exist many situations both in marketing research andin competitive intelligence where examining the impact of the ... doing so, the researcher can gain a better understanding of the culture andthe social milieu in which decisions and responses take place Doing so closely parallels the interests andthe techniques ... Cultures, in turn, emphasize and encourage certain personality types and patterns of response By understanding thein uences that impact the culture and its members, the future responses of both the individual...
... general information By carefully scanning the kinds of topics that are seriously discussed, the analyst can “get into the mind” of the communicator By combining the resulting insights with other ... keep “their cards close to their chest” in order to prevent others from gaining information that will provide a competitive and/ or a negotiating edge In addition, the hands of competitive intelligence ... product, and that is what software such as Link Charting seeks to accomplish Certainly, in order to adapt these methods to the needs (and constraints) of the competitive intelligence industry, certain...
... debates the point Mechanics are professionals who are hired, in large part, because of their skill and judgment in their area of specialization Respecting their opinions is usually inthe best interest ... be skilled at justifying their methods andin asserting that they, not their clients, should determine the most appropriate ways of analyzing and attacking a problem Justifying qualitative methods ... intelligence analysts can benefit by mastering these techniques and by integrating them into their toolkits By broadening the qualitative skills at their command beyond those that derive from espionage,...
... people to maintain their interests throughout their lives, if they join the private sector, they need to mentally adjust themselves and to place these interests in a proper perspective There have ... achieve in ways that are meaningful to them They typically seek to individually work and rework ideas in order to explain how and why people act inthe way they Futhermore, humanists often pit themselves ... a game or fighting a war According to these perspectives, the success of the organization is measured in terms of successfully confronting others According to marketing theory, the purpose of...
... subject to bias) and non-randomized clinical studies were included if they investigated the effect of manual therapy on musculoskeletal disorders in children and/ or adolescents Therefore, we excluded ... problems, and none of these was a randomized controlled clinical trial In other words, there is no first level evidence available in relation to the effectiveness of manual therapy for spinal disorders ... reports inthe non-indexed literature, the socalled "grey literature", which we have not included We intentionally did not search the grey literature, since there is no minimum of quality control in...
... evaluate the cost of the crises must take into account this possibility The crises in Finland and Sweden are alike in their initial timing, both starting in 1991 and ending in 1994 Finland’s crisis ... crisis inthe autumn of 1992 and summer of 1993 The recession turned most severe in Finland and Sweden, the northern periphery of the continent The timing andthe nature of the deep crises inthe ... Happen Again? Essays on Instability and Finance, New York and London: M.E Sharpe PART I The crisis of the 1990s in Finland and Sweden The great financial crisis in Finland and Sweden: the dynamics...
... 3.3.2.2 The factors influencing on using greeting gestures Factors The factors influencing on using greeting gestures in Vietnam (%) The factors influencing on using greeting gestures in American ... waving and smiling and nodding Waving is used by100% the survey respondents Nodding occupies for 82% Other 32 greeting gestures such as handshaking, patting, V-sign, nodding, handshaking and ... Kissing and hugging are not used to greeting the opposite sex in Vietnam On the other hand, handshaking, smiling, nodding and waving are considered the good way to greet the opposite sex, there...
... to the toiling and dying types who made it over to America And once in America, people divided once again: you could say they became the poor andthe rich The losers and winners The artists and ... aim in this chapter is to examine the place that the family occupies in Burke’s thinking on Jacobinism and Ireland, analyzing the gendered rhetoric of the prophylactic against rebellion which the ... disappear in England as it has in France, all distinctions would thereby be lost Here Burke avows the central role of masculine heterosexual discipline in creating and maintaining social, political, and...