Sunday, September 28, 2008

Burning Feet While Walking

Competition and cooperation.

  • (from "elements of international marketing" by Giuseppe and Vincenzo Monti Porcasi, ed. Chaos Management)

    In all sectors, companies are always looking Most often beyond the confines of their domestic market to compete on international markets. Often this involves the opportunity to seek foreign partners to share skills and resources through a joint venture. This term, in the practice of international trade that has not identified a specific and clearly defined legal case, but rather a wide range of assumptions about the strategic collaboration between businesses, not short-lived when two more companies agree to create a new company or otherwise to carry out joint business activity to which it intends to jointly participate.

    The variety and multiplicity of the phenomenon, joint venture, means that many are the means of implementation of collaboration substantially due to two distinct types: Contractual joint venture or equity joint ventures. The choice influenced by the objectives to be pursued and the context in which we move, not to mention the influence of tax considerations and financial and possible legal issues (the applicable law, anti-trust law). In practice it is possible to identify a number of types most often recurring

    · short-lived collaborations, which are carried out for example, when more companies are combining to make in comune un programma di ricerca o per mettere a punto una nuova tecnologia (research & development agreement) oppure quando più soggetti si consorziano per realizzare un determinato progetto (teaming agreement, consortium agreement) magari finanziando poi l’impresa con un prestito partecipativo o a lungo termine con carattere di partecipazione.
    · limited functions joint-ventures , quali quelle con cui due imprese, spesso concorrenti fra loro, si accordano per condurre in comune una parte della loro attività imprenditoriale;
    · full function joint-ventures , che si hanno quando i partecipanti fondendo le attività held by each of them in a specific sector, are a joint-venture company set to exploit a particular technology independently or in a particular geographic market on behalf of corporate shareholders;
    · real mergers in which the venturers Participants shall cease to operate as independent entities in the market or at least leave some final segment of products that previously operated separately, and entrusted the continuation of activities in this field to the new entity resulting from the merger.

    The need to form a joint venture is based on the identification of business objectives shared among the various venturers, which is followed by the need to identify the structure contrattale best suited to the task and to pursue the joint target, then examining their choices in light of the actual reason that led to the alliance between the companies, and the applicable regulations.

Thursday, August 28, 2008

Katesplayground Account

Time ... lost

If we look at time management google come out of one hundred fifty-four million pages. It is not a misprint: they are actually 154 million pages: the topic is very popular. Yet, time management and time management means you can not manage the time: the time is there (David Allen).
What we can do is just analyze our use of time and try to put them to good use for our purposes.
E 'possible to analyze the time available to us under the following categories:

REQUIRED - the time that is required of us by our "customers" and that we must devote to their satisfaction;
DESIGNED
- the time that we had planned and designed for various activities;
MADE
- what we actually used for the various achievements;
DESIRED
- what we have available for various achievements.
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The most common time-wasting
INDUCED AUTO
- The disorganization
- The inability to say no
- The reference
- Lack of interest
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DUE TO OTHER / O
- Visitors
- Phone calls
- E
- Expectations

WHY tends to postpone SOME ACTIVITIES '
Postponement Postponement
- unpleasant tasks
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laborious tasks - task not clear
- perfectionism
- Unclear objectives
- overload of commitments
- perfectionism
- resistance to change
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fall at the last moment - fear of wrong

SOME TIPS: - identify and put in order of priority objectives - to manage the programming tools such as calendars and lists of things to do - reduce the overload of work and eliminate waste of time - to delegate effectively
L 'topic is very broad. We'll be back then, before developing all the suggestions, the next action.

Tuesday, August 5, 2008

Where To Find Pink Fur Wallpaper

PRODUCTIVITY '

Doing more with less in 10 moves


Every time I heard the word along with hours of work productivity, absenteeism and the like comes to mind, in addition to Taylorism , a not so funny joke: “Per quale motivo devono passare otto ore tra il timbro d’ingresso e quello di uscita?”


Molto spesso, ed abbastanza superficialmente, si confonde produzione/prodotto con produttività. Quando si compie questo errore si pensa che aumentando il numero dei produttori (o le ore di lavoro/presenza) si riesce ad aumentare la produttività. Ed invece avviene proprio il contrario.

La produttività è in sintesi il numero di unità di prodotto per addetto. Quindi, se aumentiamo solo le ore di presenza forse le unità di prodotto in senso assoluto potrebbero anche aumentare, ma certamente non miglioreremo la produttività.


Per improve productivity, which means doing more with less, we need many more activities. Doing more with less, especially in services, is one of the contemporary challenges in times of scarce resources. It is therefore used as efficiently as possible the resources available.


The ten moves to make:
1. Defining the true cost of service;
2. Identify and improve processes at a higher cost;
3. Decide what processes you can outsource;
4. Establish shared goals;
5. Introduce a culture of accountability;
6. Monitor and predict performance;
7. Building an accurate budget ed efficace;
8. Tenere al minimo il costo dell’hardware;
9. Migliorare la cultura della trasparenza e della delega;
10. Introdurre la leadership responsabile.

In effetti si tratta di applicare il Value Management.

Se tutto questo sembra difficile è sempre possibile applicare un altro metodo, come nel video che segue.