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Presentation discussion: Union Pacific
The main topic of the presentation was what the speaker's company was looking for in prospective graduates and how the new graduate on the market could position him or herself when seeking a job. Although some of the information was specific to the presenter's company of Union Pacific RR, much of it was also germane to the current job market in general. He stressed that individuals must be well-rounded and be able to see how the company's various components worked together, rather than viewing them as atomized entities. Marketing, sales, IT, and product development are all interrelated. Advanced degrees matter less than the ability to make connections between apparently disparate departments. Similarly, in project management teams, there are often diverse skills from the different members which must be meshed together. Team members must be capable of working well with others despite different disciplinary worldviews.
Successful projects have 'team players' who can learn new skills and refine existing skills to serve the needs of the organization. They can meet project objectives in a timely fashion with a minimum of interpersonal drama. Instead of being a 'firefighter,' a good member of a project team is able to break down a problem into component parts without allowing any problems to grow out-of-control. A critical strength of any company is its leveraging of high-quality staff and for service-oriented companies such as railroad companies, having good people (more so than specific majors) is vital to success.
The most effective employees are often those who are not necessarily the fastest but those who are able to eliminate the most waste. This is commensurate with the principles of lean manufacturing: ideally, the best way to minimize delays is to 'do it right' the first time. Projects should have clear goals and all members must have clear objectives that fit together to reach those goals. The best employees are multi-functional and can 'think outside the box' to improve things so quality improvement is consistent. That is what constitutes a true leader in project management, versus a merely technically-competent employees.
However, during the little more than 10 years of this research line, contradictory results have been found (Brynjolfsson, Hitt, & Yang, 2002). From the 1970s to 1980s, those companies that invested more in IT suffered a relative setback in the work factor productivity indexes. This paper will discuss the relationship between IT and competitive advantage in following content. We believe that IT is necessary to improve competitive position of
To evaluate weak areas of the current strategy and propose solutions for improvement. 2.0 LITERATURE REVIEW 2.1 Introduction According to Zou and Cavusgil (1995), the subject of global strategy has attracted a lot of attention in the recent past. Zou and Cavisgil (1995) calim that a major reason behind this has been the increasing progress in the telecommunications and other technological areas that has brought the world closer and transnational existence of organizations Eastcompeace
2.5. Limitations of the study At the level of the limitations, these refer to the usage of secondary information, as opposed to the collection of primary data through the direct analysis of the Chinese market. This limitation is nevertheless addressed through the integration of multiple sources of valid and verifiable information, leading as such to the creation of solid, relevant and reliable findings. The second limitation is one common to all research
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This information can be provided to the marketing and scheduling teams first, so that they can devise a program of events, specials and menus and pricing that will maximize profitability. This information, along with sales expectations, can then be passed along to purchasing, who can work with the supply chain to reduce the club's inventory on hand, getting deliveries as they are needed. Thus, internal stakeholders to be interviewed
In their study, "Thinking of Inclusion for All Special Needs Students: Better Think Again," Rasch and his colleagues (1994) report that, "The political argument in favor of inclusion is based on the assumption that the civil rights of students, as outlined in the 1954 decision handed down in Brown v. Board of Education, which struck down the concept of 'separate but equal,' can also be construed as applying to special