Archive for July, 2009

THE WORLD WIDE WEB: ONE EXAMPLE OF CREATIVE DESTRUCTION

The first time I logged on to the World Wide Web, way back in 1994, it blew my mind. I knew that this would radically change the business landscape. My first thought was, “There go the travel agents.” To me, it was plain as could be that their days were numbered. The only question was how fast it was going to happen. Here we are, 10 years later, and the corner travel agent has gone (more…)

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A fortune in Job Career

When we talk about job and career, there is always thinking that we must reach the career as high as possible. Actually career like a fortune for everyone because nobody can predict when they can get promotion. I have another definition of fortune is not same with lucky because there are two components inside (more…)

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Industry Trends

Nanotechnology

Nanotechnology is a hybrid of chemistry, physics, and engineering that manipulates molecules to achieve industrial goals. Nanotechnology describes any type of engineering that takes place at a scale smaller than 1,000 nanometers (a nanometer is 1 billionth of a meter). The uses for nanotechnology include applications in biology, (more…)

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Picking and Choosing

Unsure of how to decide what kind of manufacturing company might be a good fit for you? Start by considering a few basic questions.

What Do They Make?

What a company builds, quite obviously, will tell you a lot about the company (more…)

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The Boeing Company

100 N. Riverside Plaza Chicago, IL 60606 Phone: 312-544-2000 www.boeing.com

Boeing is a wide body in the aerospace industry, commanding stature as a leader in both commercial aircraft and defense systems. Nevertheless, the skies have not been terribly friendly to mighty Boeing in recent years. It remains second to Lockheed Martin on the list of the nation’s largest defense (more…)

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Dow Chemical Company

2030 Dow Center Midland, MI 48674 Phone: 517-636-1000 www.dow.com

The largest chemical company in the United States, and one of the largest in the world, Dow Chemical produces a broad array of plastics, chemicals, and pesticides. However, the future of plastics started looking a little less bright at the start of the decade when Dow posted a string (more…)

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Side Job

I have a friend with a good hobby in photograph as his side job. In daily regular job he is working as graphic designer. I and him are working in the same company which a big (more…)

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Automobile and Components

The automobile industry has been breaking new ground for more than 100 years, first in Europe with the invention of the automobile by Daimler and Benz, then through the introduction of mass production by Ford in Michigan, and finally through the introduction of lean production (more…)

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Medical Manufacturing

Medical manufacturing has become one of the hottest areas in manufacturing. Furthermore, it’s one of the only areas in which companies have posted double-digit growth through the recent recession. Chalk this up to leaps in technology and to industry development. Companies like Medtronic and Boston Scientific produce not only implants like Vice President Dick Cheney’s defibrillator but also a host of surgical and (more…)

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Happiness

Business is not always a serious one because actually we can develop our business with happiness. Happiness comes not just because of value of our money but we can feel and provide it from our heart. This time I just try to (more…)

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