Essays on Paradigm Shift

This report shall be a case study on change management and it shall focus on one particular company. However, rather than focus on a gleaming example of change management done right or a company that emerged stronger when it came to the practice of change management, this report shall instead focus on a company that did it too wrong and too late. Indeed, Blockbuster Video used to have a commanding share of the video rental market. However, they failed to read the proverbial tea leaves when it came to the paradigm shift to streaming and the use of kiosks ...

Central Issue:

The question to be answered is how Mattel should respond from a strategic standpoint in light of a product recall that involved unsafe toys that were made in China. While the use of offshoring of labor is pervasive in the industry that Mattel works in, there are indeed other options and having “tainted” toys and other products that are used primarily, if not solely, by children is a huge problem for Mattel from a reputation and liability standpoint.

Recommended Course of Action:

Mattel is in a precarious position in that having the toys made in the United States or in other fully developed ...

Introduction

This paper focuses on Automated Guided Vehicles (AGV), driverless, and autonomous trucks and cars—collectively referred to as “driverless and autonomous vehicles” in this paper. The transportation industry is one of the most important sectors in the world economy. It ensures that goods and services can freely flow within unrestricted (i.e. trade-able) areas. This is allowed through the fast and efficient (as much as possible) of commodities and people. The premise is that the faster and more efficient goods and people can be moved from one point to another, the more booming the transportation industry will be. A booming ...

Introduction

With globalization, organizational management is influenced by both internal and external demands, innovation and new economic paradigms. The new setting requires that organizations ought to grow, acquire new knowledge and reframe their central operations to meet the new demands (Qiu, Donaldson, & Luo, 2012 p 95). Therefore, the new paradigm is based on system approach, change in technology and the way knowledge is managed at the respective firms. For the purpose of this study, the organization that will be analyzed is Coca-Cola Company, which is a multinational organization. The organization operates in different countries across the globe and is characterized ...

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IBM’s Changed Strategy IBM (International Business & Machines) is famous for transforming from survival to successful company, changed its overall business strategy due to intense global challenges and competition. The company started as a Hardware Production Company in the early 1900s then transformed to a Service company in late 1900s. Now, IBM has become a Software Developing Company after vast transformations and changes in strategies. IBM faced the diverse range of challenges including demands of globalization, innovation, and growth that encouraged IBM to revise the business strategies. However, this change was formal planning process based on three global key ...

Reciprocity of Marketing & Culture

INTRODUCTION The growing interdependence of global markets has made a more compelling case for culture as an increasingly significant variable in marketing efforts. For one, products and services produced at a global scale find more diverse platforms, particularly across virtual media. The pace, scale and content of products and/or services are, moreover, making an increasing case for more standardized offerings across different marketing contexts. Typically, consumer behavior metrics – including, most notably, conventional market research and more innovative approaches as data analytics platforms and applications – are adopted in order to identify consumer behaviors and needs. This approach to consumer behavior ...

It is indeed right to appreciate the fact that change is inevitable. In every aspect of our living, it is very difficult for many factors to remain the same because humans are dynamic beings. A paradigm shift is a significant change that is seen on a particular aspect and usually takes a period for the change to be effected. There are many factors in the world we live in today that have experienced significant degrees of change; they include human interaction, science, the family setting, governance, education and many others. In this case, the primary concern will be drawn ...

Description

This research paper focuses on the Homeless Veterans in Southern California. Veterans make up 34% of the population in the US. Three percent of all veterans are women. Eleven percent of the veterans are considered homeless with about 400,000 falling to the problem of homelessness every year (Tsai, Pietrzak & Rosenheck, 2013). As a community of interest, the Homeless Veterans in Southern California comprise of men and women that survived wars such as the Vietnam War, the Gulf War, and the Afghan and Iraq wars. The ages of the veterans tally with the age and time when they were ...

A paradigm shift refers to a revolutionary way of thinking in any given setting that is usually propelled by a number of agents of change. Organizations should always seek for a way of coping with paradigm shifts because it presents various opportunities that may also come in handy for the growth of the organizations (Dogan, 2001, p.72). An excellent example is the revolution that led to the transformation of science from the Ptolemaic system all the way to the Copernican system and eventually to Quantum physics. As a result, a lot positive changes occurred in the worldview. Presently, an example of paradigm shift that ...

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Introduction. The traditional model of end-of-life (EOL) care is not adjusted to the needs of patients with life-limited conditions other than cancer. By presenting a case of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patient, Taylor (2011) develops representation of common patterns of dying in terminal stage lungs disease, and focuses on such patients’ needs to elaborate the optimal care model. This paper discusses the case presented in the video by Taylor & Trotman (2011) summarizing its key points and concepts. Legal Considerations. ACP made by hospice team together with Martin, under New Zealand’s common law, should be logically followed by ...

The concept of a paradigm shift gives a means of making connections between changes that are linked to communicative language teaching. There are eight changes, which fit with the communicative language teaching paradigm shift. These are the social nature of learning, the autonomy of the learner, curricular integration, diversity, focus on meaning, individual thinking skills, teachers as co-learners and alternative assessment. Paradigm shift in education is used to represent change. A paradigm shift takes place when we see things from a different perspective. Paradigm shifts in the twentieth Century can be due to a large shift from positivism to post-positivism (Jacobs & Farell, ...

A Paradigm Shift in U.S. Foreign Policy. A Paradigm Shift in U.S. Foreign Policy. U.S. foreign policy is directed by the need for homeland security and defense. It also seeks to protect its national interests overseas. Non-intervention in global affairs, while maximizing U.S. interests had been the constant factor in U.S. Foreign policy ever since the country’s birth. The United States interacted with foreign countries like France and Spain to counter the British, whom it distrusted for a long time after independence. Foreign relations in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries were also limited to expansion ...

Industry and Competitive Analysis

The childcare services industry is very competitive. It is an industry made of small players who compete each day to acquire larger market share. With the enrichment and growth of young people’s lives at center stage, healthy competition in the industry today requires a paradigm shift. Notably, childcare industry is among the fastest growing industries in Fondulac Avenue due to the increasing number of households in which both parents work full time. Child care costs have increased over the years. Consequently, the rates of enrollment have been on the decline. With a total market size of $8000 million, long-term ...

International relations experience radical changes in how security is conceptualized. Traditional studies of inter-state relations typically define security in military 1 and determinism 2 or fear and conflict 3. However, in light of recent international developments, particularly in a post-Cold War era, non-state actors are increasingly viewed as fundamental in international relations not only between but also within states 4. The case for security is lent further urgency, moreover, due to an increasing privatization of military skills in an international market of corporate warfighting 5. This is not to mention notable gaps in women's roles during war – gaps which highlight ...

Abstract

Marketing strategies have recently changed based on the emergence of more cost-effective as well as diverse digital channels of marketing. Traditionally, marketing entailed “P” strategies that did not play any meaningful role in the establishment and maintenance of customer-company relationships. Indeed, traditional marketing strategies are considered to be based on assumptions that: Customers ought to avoid the responsibility of making decisions; customers are often passive and ought to be pushed as a result; customers often have great difficulties in the learning process; and that customers rarely use – or do not use at all – imagination. These general assumptions normally create a “push-based” ...

Introduction

Today, technological advances are happening at a very high pace. From intelligent communication devices to medical breakthroughs in genetics and vaccines, technology is working remarkably well for man. Undoubtedly, technology has improved the quality of life in areas such as health, medicine, communication, commerce, politics and defense. However, even with all these technological improvements on the quality of life, there are worries that technology may soon become uncontainable. These fears are based on the technological singularity theory, which states that machines may one day become more intelligent than their human manufacturers, leading to unwanted occurrences (Chalmers, 2010). This fear is ...

The communication models have changed in recent years due the news dynamics in business as influenced by new technologies, globalization and customers relations. This has seen a paradigm shift from a “command and control” approach to a more conversational approach of communication where discussions are part of communication as opposed to giving orders. A new concept in the communication leadership is known as organizational conversation. The state of the organizational leadership in 21st century has been advocated by business leaders and managers of large organizations to enhance the communication flow within their organizations. (iveybusinessjournal.com, 2010). Professional communicators have all emphasized the ...

The Neolithic Revolution

1. The technological transformations during the Neolithic Age have lead to the development of the first historical states and civilizations, in a way, that they have paved the way to mastering the domesticated animals and the inactive agricultural system that has played an important role in the development of the humans (McClellan III & Dorn, 2008). They helped in the production of food surplus, and increase in the population that helped in the development of the real towns and also increased the specialization of the occupations in the human societies. An indication of this fact is the Indus River valley civilization ...

Kuhn Cycle presented by Thomas Kuhn in early 1960’s. This cycle was a very sophisticated method of telling about the science and its progress. Kuhn presented a model elaborating the ways how a science can contribute in the progress of a society. That model was named as “structure of a scientific revolution.” According to that model, Kuhn negated the outdated ideas about the progress of science. According to Kuhn, the world is relying on the idea in the field of science, and that idea portrays the slow and steady innovations and addition to the existing scientific progress. So Kuhn challenged that ideas and ...

Problems and Solutions

Divorce in the United States - Problems and Solutions People get divorced for a variety of reasons: differences in personalities, onset of addictions or emotional/physical abuse, or financial issues. Sometimes these reasons for divorce can be impacted by one’s cultural upbringing, including ideals placed on them regarding abstinence and contraception, as well as religious ideals. In order to understand the most frequent causes of divorce in the United States, religious ideologies and geographical setting must be taken into account. Moreover, statistics and data driven studies are incredibly in order to be well and accurately informed. Understanding the divorce ...

Impact of Culture on Communication/Conflict Management AND Motivation/Reward Systems

Culture forms an essential component of communication and conflict resolution. Cultures are comparable to underground rivers running through our relationships, interactions and our lives generally. Culture furnishes us with attributions, perceptions, judgments and ideas. Cultures are embedded in almost all conflicts because the conflicts themselves arise amongst human relationships. It, therefore, affects the way we address frame, blame and even attempt to manage the conflicts. Essentially, there is always a cultural component in any conflict. For instance, conflicts occurring between Israel and Palestine or India and Pakistan are not solely based on territorial or sovereignty issues, the conflicts are also ...

Introduction

The internet has affected many industries with the ease of access to information and the enhancement of communication channels. The media has also been affected by the internet. With the ease of getting information from the internet, the media content is becoming easy to get. One of the disadvantages that the internet has brought to the media industry is the piracy which has been made more profound with the use of this new technology. The internet has become a medium through which media content can be accessed and abused. This is becoming an issue to the content producers. The artists ...

Abstract

The current trends of technology have made companies invest much to the use of information and communication technologies. Information technologies have enhanced business processes and improved automation processes. Web search is becoming an area of concern in the development of computer technologies. With the increased development of websites, searching through this large collection of websites is becoming tedious. Various technologies have been developed in the past to solve this issue. The previous technologies of search engine optimization and search improvements have only helped individual enterprises. Semantic Web is a technology that is being researched and developed to enhance the search ...

For the longest time, I believed in a fairly whole-hearted approach to the American Dream – if you worked hard enough, that was enough to get you to succeed. I very much valued hard work over education; my father, who was my role model all throughout my childhood, managed to build a business from the ground up, all without getting a college education. All my life, learning from my father, I figured that school would not really give me the tools I needed to succeed – he was able to make a business work with no education, after all, so why should I need to ...

The Scientific Revolution has been subjected to philosophical evaluation for quite a long time. Among the most prominent people that have subjected the scientific revolution to a thorough thought process is Thomas Kuhn. According to Thomas Kuhn, scientific history has been characterized by changes in the scientific outlook (Dilworth 70). This can be best explained by the fact that the scientific community usually accepts a dominant paradigm, until anomalies arise. As time passes, scientists question the paradigm itself from which new ideas and theories emerge, further changing the outlook. In support of Kuhn’s views, this paper seeks to explain that the ...

Competitive Forces

Competitive forces that are in the Sporting and Athletic Goods Industry are; Rivalry among the competing firms, there is a lot of scrambles for the customers. Calloway Golf, Nike, Puma, Adidas-Reebok and Fila, are rival companies. Firms are looking to lower their prices, improve on the quality, and improving on how they respond to market changes. Firms are responding to market changes by developing new styles and models and availing the products directly to the retailers. There is a prospect of evolution of substitute products and services in the business. This situation occurs when companies from other industry try to enter ...

Marketing Paradigm - Third Millennium

In the past, the business environment was oriented towards the industry, but a half century ago the focus shifted from industry to firm, underlying the microeconomic approach, which allowed the market evaluation in terms of demand and cost, identifying various conditions that generated elasticity demands (Dixon & Wilkinson, year, p. 62). This marketing paradigm, therefore, was the incipient conceptualization of the commercial relationship between the business and different customers, wherein the business adapts its offer to various demand levels. The paradigm identified by Robinson (1933, in Dixon & Wilkinson, 1989, p. 62) as the division of market in sub-markets, ranging ...

1.0 Introduction The study of human development remains widely varied and complex, thus giving rise to many debates, controversies and issues. As each developmental theory tries to explain a limited area of development, the end result is a wide range of competing theoretical views leading to a major controversial issue of continuity vs. discontinuity. At the core of the controversy is whether human development is solely and evenly continuous or it consists of age-specific stages. The proponents, for instance the environmental or behavioral theorists, of the continuous model believe that development is a linear increase in abilities and competences that is smooth ...

And their Effect on the Reduction of Human Trafficking

Introduction Human trafficking has been defined by Clawson et al as “modern day slavery” and it is a crime that affects every nation of the world (2009). As a crime it is most commonly associated with the women folk and little children who find themselves traded for the purpose of sexual or labor intensive services. The Citizens for Community Values (n.d.) stated that human trafficking does in fact go beyond sex and labor to other forms of exploitation. Agreeing with that definition the arm of The United Nations that handle unfair treatment of human beings have described trafficking as “the ...

Health Care

Introduction Research question, aims and objectives Literature search strategy Appraisal of key study Identification of key themes Literature search strategy

Action plan

Conclusion Introduction The national framework for people survey document provides data supportive of a need pertaining to primary health care alignment of strategies when planning medical interventions for elderly populations across the world. Oman is no exception since every geographic location has its peculiar aging characteristics that must be addressed in designing health promotions programs and planning health care interventions for this vulnerable population(Department of Health, 2000) Hence, the role of ...

Information technology is advancing extremely fast. The society is adapting to the changes, but the changes have not been understood by many in the societies. The forces of changes in information technology have not only impacted in the communication sector but all sectors of the economy. Information technology through the internet has resulted into a global village where geographical distance is no longer a limiting factor for two parties to do business. For those who are in the information technology sector, it is not easy to predict what will be the next state of information technology. The fact is that the ...

Wound care, especially the management of chronic wounds is a costly affair. It is estimated that for every 1000 patients, 3.5 have a wound (Shepherd & Nixon, 2013). This implies that considerable resources are spent in the management of wounds. For instance, in the US, $2.8 billion is spent annually in the management of about 3-5 million chronic wounds. Chronic wounds negatively impact on the quality of life of affected patients since they affect their comfort, mobility, emotional well-being, life satisfaction, create caregiver burden, and time is spent seeking medical care (Buckley, Adelson, & Agazio, 2009). The implementation of prospective payment systems has ...

Same-sex or gay marriage is one of the more divisive political issues facing the United States today. Like other hot-button issues, everyone seems to have a strong opinion on the matter, often displaying an uncommon unwillingness to budge from their taken philosophical standpoint. This is because the issue of marriage itself is one that elicits strong emotions in people, and many individuals will take a stance based on their emotional reaction to the issue rather than a logical consideration of facts. However, in the most recent decade, public opinion has been slowly moving away from the more conservative policies of the past regarding same-sex ...

Change is necessary in every business. It is only through adaptation that any business can meet the challenges of tomorrow, and this requires a willingness to understand the ever changing world of technology. If any organization wants to be successful, it must make itself profittable, it must adapt this change. Information Technology, or IT, has brought about a significant change in a businesses structure regarding integration, standardization, simplification and modularity. By applying these properties to a business , that business is able to meet and satisfy the needs of their customer base. In recent years, this shift is undoubtedly occurring. Software technology is one ...

Implementation of an evidence-based practice program

The pool of medical workers who graduated more than a decade ago actually increases every year, and whether we like it or not, they may have missed a lot of medical updates and new practices during their time in clinics or academia. A medical professional has to stay updated with the latest trends and practices in the medical field because he may be able to use these trends in treating and administering proper plans of care to his patients. Evidence-based practice has the potential to improve overall patient outcomes because it uses valid, researched, and tested evidence that serve as options ...

Telecommunications and Networking, Autumn 2011

Realizing the Future of Wireless Data Communications The Need for Software Radios and programmable radio chipsets

First, there is the need to find the right combination of hardware that can be programmed to provide support to high-performance signals for radios. It is projected that in the next 10 years from now, software radios would be the standard technologies in many commercial and military communication devices (Partridge 2011: 63). The software radios can be programmed to limit their usability to specific functions changeable from the real software that controls the radios. Programmable radio chipsets can also be incorporated with ...

Introduction

This paper is addressing the concept of psychotherapeutic intervention which according to the authors, is broader than just psychotherapy as some people sometimes confuse psychotherapeutic intervention for. The first writer argues that psychotherapeutic intervention is a very old concept in the United States of America and that the claims of someone in particular (Freud) having invented the idea of psychotherapeutic intervention is malice and cannot be ascertained. The first writer broadly looks at how the ethnocentric views and politics have tampered with the conception and application of the idea of psychotherapeutic intervention.

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“A corollary of the view that European doctors ...