The disruptions caused by the Winter War and the Continuation War caused further food shortages, especially when Finland ceded territory, including about one-tenth of its farmland, to the Soviet Union. The experiences ofthe depression and the war years persuaded the Finns to secure independent food supplies to prevent shortages in future conflicts.
After the war, thefirst challenge was to rese
The idea ofthe product might have a potential to bring great convenience to buyers. However, if the trend ofthe buyers is reflected, no matter what kind of excellent product that the companies think of, they will fail.
Theother factor is the amount of capital that companies have. First movers have a high risk of being refused in the market. They bear high initial cost in doing research an
of training system
Training system for general positions is sophisticated while training system for production positions is not. Due to the flexible production system, required skills to production workers are changing. The role of indirect workers and skills such as equipment control, monitoring, maintenance and repair is becoming more important. But current training system is not enough to r
other functions all reporting directly to Austin. The company’s growth was outpacing the ability of IT to provide
information needed to manage the business. To bring some order to its IT house, the CIO moved quickly to implement an information system, called Information to Run the Business, Cio set up the development of next-generation applications that would achieve tighter integration of dat
the one that created and monopolized the market, Apple could maintain its price. However, it targeted other, more price sensitive groups by launching a separate cheap line of products, called iPod shuffles.
Another important technology that was added afterwards was the touch pad technology. Apple released an iPod Touch, which was again a huge success. Other MP3 players had touch pads, but not
becomes much easier.
While changing the structure of company, LGE also tries to reduce the head office’s size to innovate. They disbanded many teams, including even ‘Blue Ocean’ team which have established creative strategies for entire LGE
2.3. Systems
We can view LG electronics’ systems in two ways, internally and externally. Firstof all, remarkable system for internal management is
the several
restrictive environments around her.
Townspeople don’t think Homer Barron as a suitable marriage partner for Emily because of her noblesse.
At first we were glad that Miss Emily would have an interest, because the ladies all said, "Of course a Grierson would not think seriously of a Northerner, a day laborer." But there were still others, older people, who
of defining their target customers according to income, Audi and BMW’s target customers should be anyone who is willing to pay the price to associate the cars’ image with their own image. Therefore, it is very important for Audi and BMW to forge an emotional link with consumers and to create strong brand images and positions to differentiate them from other brands. BMW positions itself as “
of $37billion, Kraft Foods Inc. is one ofthe world’s largest food and beverage companies. Moreover, its products are present in more than 99% of U.S. households. Kraft markets many ofthe world’s leading brands. They have 9 brands with revenues exceeding $1billion and more than 50 additional brands with revenues greater than $100million. In addition, more than 40 oftheir brands are more tha
the position and even private relationship was very important part respect to get promoted. These are typical Korean companies’ organizational culture from long time ago. However, since Interbrew manages OB beer, successful western organization culture has been set up. In other words, the western culture means every employee deserves to air one’s opinion and one’s position of company doesn