The One Stop Shop

Tom Peters, the management guru, has been one of the strongest proponents of the virtual company , arguing that imaginative use of modem information technology renders the corporation redundant. 

Virtual companies do not have any technical resource under their direct control and use consultants and other outside agencies to advise on the various stages of the product development. The people managing the company must have very good project management skills to keep the development on track. 

Although still in their infancy and still to really prove their worth through the ups and downs of the economic cycle, there is no doubt that virtual companies are here to stay, and will take their place among the variety of companies that make up the speciality chemical and pharmaceutical areas of the industry. 

An interesting development that can be used by companies to answer some of their R D problems, involves the use of internet sites for forums designed to be virtual knowledge bases, for example InnoCentive. On this website companies can anonymously describe their scientific problems so that they can be solved by outsiders. Over 50,000 scientists have registered with InnoCentive so there is an excellent chance that someone has an answer out there in virtual space. The person who successfully answers the problem gets a not insignificant cash prize from the seeker company [B-41]. Several major companies such as Procter Gamble and Henkel say they have benefited from the use of InnoCentive [B-42]. 

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Table 2.5 Pros and Cons of the One-Stop Shop Concept...

The spread of chemistries that a combined group would offer become important for a specialised chemical company as customers are increasingly demanding the one-stop shop for their requirements. Customer overlap is one driver for acquisitions plus the complementary product areas of flame retardants, surfactants, fine chemicals, water treatment and tertiary amines. It was estimated that only 40% of A W sales, at most, are in markets served by Albemarle. 

Directory of Open Access Journals, Computer Science http //www.doaj.org/ (accessed August 2, 2010). Open Access Journals are defined as journals that do not charge individuals or their institution for access. This directory aims to be the one-stop shop listing for these peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly journals. Go to the main page, click on Technology and Engineering and then Computer Science. ... 

The dialysis access center is a multidisciplinary facility that includes a dedicated vascular access team for the creation and maintenance of AV access according to the one stop shop model. Planning, constructing and maintaining the access with continuous surveillance is carried out by the same surgeon who... 

The latest outsourcing development is for giant services companies to bundle their services together to provide a one-stop shop. A services contractor may provide some form of permanently installed utilities plant under a build, own, operate, maintain program (BOOM), so that the customer merely pays a contract fee to receive water, steam, electricity, and other services. Thus, the entire responsibility for the provision of utilities can be passed to a contractor, and not merely at one facility, but globally ... 

CleanGredients is an online database of cleaning product ingredients A one-stop-shop for green formulation . The database contains physical chemical data, MSDSs, technical datasheets, and environmental and human health hazard data on raw materials used to formulate cleaning products. 

On the other hand, frequency response analysis cannot reveal information on dynamic response easily—something root locus does very well. Hence controller design is always an iterative procedure. There is no one-stop-shopping. There is never a unique answer. 

A substantial proportion of this sort of bread made in France is now made in plant bakeries. The same sort of social forces are pushing French people to one-stop shopping as are operating in the UK. 

An example in point is Johnson Matthey, the world s largest supplier of opiates. The products are obtained by plant extraction, which is the company s core competence. JM acquired the chemical CRO PharmEco with the intent to offer a one-stop shop capability. As PharmEco was primarily involved in synthetic chemistry, it is difficult to come across a synergy between the small- and the large-scale business. 

H. O.P.E. Center is unique to this rural area. It sets an example to the nation for a one-stop shopping for human resource services. 

Dr. E interrupted the session and invited Dr. T to join them. After finishing the care of another patient, Dr. T entered the mental health meeting and was able to give Mr. F the test result. This one-stop shopping was convenient and secure. 

Public health staff learned essential lessons that would apply in many instances to other diseases that evacuees put their HIV/AIDS status at the low need of their priorities that a lack of consolidated one-stop shopping for resources caused evacuees additional and unnecessary stress that planning increased in difficulty with the number of unknown factors and that preestablished network relationships with federal agencies led to a rapid delivery of funds and services ( County Officials Learn Lessons, 2006). 

Medicinal plants being new to the farming systems, a lot of support by way of technology dissemination, capacity building, production of quality planting material and its certification is required. To meet these requirements, Medicinal Plants Facilitation Centre is required to establish, which may act as a one-stop shop for the problems of farmers and other stakeholders of medicinal plants. Medicinal Plants Facilitation Centre may organize training... 

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