Monthly Archives: June 2010
Lean production at Portakabin
Portakabin is an international company. It produces some of the most advanced building systems available. The company is part of the £700 million turnover Shepherd Group. The Shepherd Group is one of the largest family-owned companies in the European building [...]
Filed under LEAN Manufacturing, Operations
When Swedish High-End Apparel went "Online"
Six Swedish high-end apparel companies attributed as part of “the Swedish fashion wonder” with online distribution have been affected by six chosen factors. The six factors presented are extracted from previous studies and consist of customer relationships, intermediary relationships, pricing, [...]
Entrepreneurial attitudes towards change
Many authors (refer: Swayne and Tucker, 1973; Kahneman and Lovallo, 1994; Baron, 1998; Stewart et al., 1998; Simon et al., 1999; Simon and Houghton, 2003; Baum and Lock, 2004; Mathews, 2008) have examined the traits and skills of the entrepreneur. [...]
Filed under Articles, Change Management, Concepts, Entrepreneurship
Rapid Internationalization in Emerging Economies
Extensive theoretical and empirical studies have been elaborated regarding internationalization with the analysis of different features. Investigations have just recently started to explore the firms from emerging economies that have significantly being internationalized. The main purpose of our study is [...]
Technology Licensing Agreements:EU Vs. US
Innovation is the source of new products and processes that expand the frontiers of competition. Advancements in technology are continuously occurring throughout the world as firms seek to develop new ideas for their products, services and markets. Most technology licensing [...]
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Filed under Legal Cases, Study Reports
Traditional Knowledge Vs. Patent System
Traditional knowledge (TK) is in simple terms knowledge systems held by indigenous communities, often relating to their surrounding natural environment. Through globalisation and the increased availability of this knowledge as well as the implementation of intellectual property systems in the [...]
Filed under Legal Cases, Patents, Study Reports
Counterfeiting and piracy from a rightholders perspective
This essay focuses on the increasing problems for companies and right-holders with counterfeited and pirated goods in the European Union and the problems for right holders to enforce their IPR rights. Will IPRED1 make a difference and is there really [...]
Filed under Legal Cases, Study Reports
Role of Intellectual Property Rights on Economic Growth in China
Nowadays, Chinese government tries to gain more sustainable and high speed growth on the economic performance with more innovation brought by improving intellectual property rights (IPR) system. A view on protecting IP by previous studies is that the effect of [...]
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FMEA: Preventing a Failure Before Any Harm Is Done
FMEA (Failure Mode and Effects Analysis) is a proactive tool, technique and quality method that enables the identification and prevention of process or product errors before they occur. Within healthcare, the goal is to avoid adverse events that could potentially [...]
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Filed under Articles, Operations, Six Sigma
Kaizen: Easiest, Fastest Way to Improve Office Processes
Many of the early benefits of Lean and Six Sigma at Medtronic, a major medical technology company, were in manufacturing. In the last year, however, Medtronic also has had notable results improving transactional and administrative processes.
Medtronic's world headquarters in Minneapolis, [...]
Filed under Articles, Change Management, Concepts, Operations