S. jobs, or approx. 25% of its employees, overseas by end of 2004. The plan is to ultimately move EVERY job that supports an internal account. I also hear they are behind schedule at the moment. Certainly, this is a very significant proportion of the computer giant's American workforce. Yet, IBM's management justifies such drastic demographic changes by appealing to the humanitarian side of the globalization debate. It's not about one shore

Business Model The company is Costco. Costco Wholesale Connections is the largest membership warehouse club chain in the United States. A warehouse club chain is a retail store that sells a wide variety of merchandise where clients are required to buy products in quantities, reducing its price markup on products up to 15%. The cheap prices, kept down by the no-frills atmosphere to the store makes the store attractive to people

Business Ethics and Law Over the last several years, the issue of ethics and legal challenges has been increasingly brought to the forefront. This is because globalization has created a change in the way firms are interacting with employees. Over the course of time, this has resulted in firms outsourcing jobs to key locations (which have lower labor costs). This has given executives greater amounts of flexibility in determining: what is

Retirement Options Almost one-third of American workers are failing to prepare themselves for a comfortable retirement, according to a new survey conducted by American Express. The national telephone survey of working adult men and women who had recently left or lost their jobs revealed that 30% did not invest for retirement in their company's 401(k) plan. The survey also revealed that 16% of these participants rolled their money into an IRA, and

Alpaca Business Overview of Scenario Like many people who have retirement, investments that are diminishing in return, Betty Parks decided to do something tangible to increase her yields for retirement. Betty is 49, and has at least 16 more years to increase her nest egg. Betty's view is that the Alpaca, a South-American Llama-like creature, will be a low-maintenance and higher yield way to increase her funds. Unlike the Llama, Alpacas are

Disruptive InnovationIntroductionThe concept of disruptive innovation was first introduced by Clayton M. Christensen in the 1990s. In his research, Christensen argued that established companies could be overtaken by startups not because they mismanaged their business but due to the emergence of new, game-changing technologies or business models that radically altered the landscape. These disruptive innovations typically begin in niche markets before moving into the mainstream, gradually reshaping entire industries by