New business

Core Competencies. These are sets of skills and capabiUties that are difficult to dupHcate and have the potential to create entirely new businesses. Technical competencies often refer to sets of key technologies and the kinds of learning embedded in the organization and its people, the competency carriers. 

Market expansion Business expansion Entirely new business... 

Concentration of influence in small groups Tax incentives for new businesses... 

Redesign the business system. Create a new business model in which product, production system, delivery system, supply chain and customer care may all be changed. 

The sales costs are generally greater for plants not running at capacity than for mature plants. It is easier to keep a customer than it is to attract new business. Assume that the total sales costs remain the same, so the cost per pound increases. 

It is indicative of the growing importance of the scientific software market that a major corporation, Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc. (BBN), has recently formed a new business activity called BBN Software Products, focused entirely on developing software for science. BBN Software Products leading software product,... 

Unitika is a Petrochemical company created in 1889 and which has grown especially into the textile business. Today, their business covers a wide range of economical areas, including financial activities. Its environmental division provides facilities for water treatment, incinerators, air pollution prevention facilities and heavy metal fixing agents. Their R D center conducts research to develop new business areas and products in four segments polymers, environment, advanced materials, and health. 

The hard pretzel is said to be a serendipitous discovery made when an apprentice baker left a tray of soft pretzels in the oven overnight. The resulting hard product was liked and started a whole new business. 

The independence approach allows for a good encapsulation of the APS issue but requires major changes in business processes. It requires the creation and maintenance of an independent data model with its own data structure and the definition of new business processes. Introduction of the APS system must be done in a big bang. Integration is not fully guaranteed, its quality depends on the throughput and the error tolerance of the integration interface. 

For example, the split subnet abstract business action might be Estimate network traffic and then purchase the cheapest equipment combination that can handle that load. In the new business, the worker may perform the estimation with the help of the new PM tools, and select the cheapest equipment combination using a Web browser and desktop calculator. 

Figure 10.26 Mapping component models and new business process to requirements.

How would we describe the use case findOrderDispatches in our new business process Let s first look at the original requirements model this use case is a query, and it is best to make the specifications of queries trivial by adding convenience attributes to the model. So we add an attribute on SalesOrder ... 

The objective is to build new business components that can integrate with legacy systems and across disparate systems while shielding the system from technology changes. 

Many new businesses started with an idea and a patent. How would they have been affected by a diminished patent system Would small inventors with good ideas merely try to sell the ideas to big business in the knowledge that without patents they couldn t compete with big business What is the inventor s protection against appropriation of his idea while he is trying to sell it ... 

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