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1 | 2 | 3 | Next1 Citation In my musings on possible ways in which higher education might globalize, I have often referred to the modularization process that has been at the core of much of the globalization of industry. A key component of this process has been to turn from vertical integration of companies to a focus on core competencies with an evolved supply chain. A recent article on Economist.com entitled Moving on up: Is the recession heralding a return to Henry Ford?s model? looks at how these supply chains have, technorati.com
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1 Citation by Waylon Lewis, elephantjournal.com on Mar 31, 2009This sexytime for eco folks video details, in scantily entertaining fashion, just how eco, progressive?er, wow?.solar American Apparel...what was I?recycling ESL free bicycles and?vertical integration, Made in Downtown LA?what an amazing body?what was I talking about? Video:Technorati Tags: American Apparel, bicycles, business, Dov Charney, eco, ecofashion, esl, fashion, free, LA, Los Angeles, organic, recycling, scraps, solar, vertical integra, technorati.com
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?Act Vertical? vs. ?Go Extinct? Retailers ? Part 1 1 Citation In over a decade of covering the enterprise application space, I?ve repeatedly lauded and advised vertical focus (i.e., someone?s proven expertise in some particular industry and market segment ), but not that much vertical integration per se . My beliefs were recently confirmed by what I learned while pursuing my APICS CSCP (Certified Supply Chain Professional) title. Namely, Module One of the APICS CSCP Learning System , entitled ?Supply Chain Management Fundamentals? teaches that com, technorati.com
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?Act Vertical? vs. ?Go Extinct? Retailers ? Part 2 1 Citation Part 1 of this blog series set the historical background for the supply chain management (SCM ) evolution and presented the advantages and shortcomings of vertical vs. horizontal integration . The analysis then moved onto the generally embattled retail sector, where a select group of innovative retailers has found a ?happy medium? approach to stay well above the fray. Retailers such as PetSmart Inc ., Aéropostale Inc ., Coach Inc ., Trader Joe?s , Walgreens , and Target have realized t, technorati.com
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AT&T Company Vector Logo Download 1 Citation Formed in 1983 as Southwestern Bell Corporation, the companny AT&T Inc., is the largest provider of both local and long distance telephone services in the United States, and also serves digital subscriber line Internet access. It is claimed that the company has over 77 million wireless customers, and more than 150 million total customers. The current AT&T includes eleven of the original Bell Operating Companies, and the original long distance division. While it reconstitutes much of the, technorati.com
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Apple Assembles Chip Design Team, Plans Custom iPhone Guts 1 Citation The WSJ reports that Apple is putting together an all-star chip design team, starting with the former CTO of AMD, to work on in-house chips for mobile devices. Old habits die hard, I guess. Apple is prone to occasional fits of vertical integration , and has never been terribly reluctant to run counter to the prevailing hardware winds, but this doesn?t sound like some Jobsian act of contrarianism. The report indicates that it?s the iPhone?s unique power and performance demands that are d, technorati.com
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Oracle takes over Sun; What sort of an inflection point is this? Intel the looser????? 1 Citation Do you remember that old point about ?inflection points? from ?Only the paranoid survive??We had that great looking chart of various IT companies IBM, DEC etc. which had the entire stack of technology all by themselves. The hardware (often right from the chip), and the sofware. Then that model went bust with Microsoft dominating the OS market with its Windows OS and Intel dominating the chip sector and hardware makers basically getting invisible. Hardware makers, like Dell, were outsourcing manu, technorati.com
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Giant logistics and oil firm rides out the downturn 1 Citation Bilbao cranes + cargoOriginally uploaded by RoseBridgerWhile the big retailers? stores are prominent landmarks and always in the news, further back along the supply chain the logistics firms distributing the goods are less visible. Maersk is the world?s biggest container ship firm, and in this picture of Bilbao Port on the North coast of Spain you can see some Maersk containers. In 2008 Maersk continued the growth of its 500 strong fleet, ordering 16 ships, each of which can carry a record 1,700, technorati.com
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Opinion: One cost of cheap bacon may be fiery saucer-sized lesions in people 1 Citation Doctor in tiny town sees link to hog farms and fiery, saucer-sized lesions of MRSA (superbugs, or flesh-eating bacteria) in too many patients. Infections likely came from routine overuse of antibiotics in feed. Our model of agriculture produces cheap bacon but evidence is building that shows it risks our health. And: Factory-farm pigs are infused with huge range of antibiotics and vaccines and doused with insecticides so they can survive in confined spaces; they are in state of dying until they', technorati.com
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1 Citation A film distributor is an independent company, a subsidiary company or occasionally an individual, which acts as the final agent between a film production company or some intermediary agent, and a film exhibitor, to the end of securing placement of the producer's film on the exhibitor's screen. In the film business, the term "distribution" refers to the marketing and circulation of movies in theaters. The primary agenda of the distributor is to convince the exhibitor to rent, or "book", each, technorati.com
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