The modern enterprise

In the exercise of his trade, the modern enterprise has produced undeniable benefits. In general, the public has provided timely and adequate supply and more effective distribution of goods and services. Through the dissemination of cr has increased the purchasing power of large segments of the population and, through advertising, has brought them knowledge of new and useful products to meet their overall needs. Moreover, the increase in productivity and mass production have allowed the price reduction. … any service that truly provides the government could be supplied more efficiently and moral by private enterprise and cooperative Murray Rothbard, For a New Liberty, however, it is clear that today is not enough simply that the company complies with their economic goals. People generally expect it to take part in other areas of social life and provides solutions.Moreover, the company to survive and develop fully, you need to do so within a market economy. Our market economy, said economist Wilhelm Roepke, “is a system of contractual relationships, millions of isolated economies in complicated relationship, but thanks to the market mechanism are combined into an ordered whole, in a combination of freedom and order probably constitutes the greatest extent that both can be achieved in both. “And he maintains that a well regulated market economy requires a clear framework that the State raises important tasks, a sound monetary system and a prudent cr policy, a legal order to exclude as much as possible abuses of the free market and to ensure that success can only be achieved by providing a genuine service, and lastly, a multitude of measures and institutions to ameliorate the most of the numerous imperfections of the market economy, with emphasis on a certain correction of the income distribution and safety and protection of the weak. One of the social issues important and controversial at a time, is the payment of tax to make the company the state. Taxes are not just for the support of government administration, public services, social security and implementation of infrastructure projects, but are one of the few resources available for redistribution.Therefore, each of the decisions the company takes today (setting up a plant, launching a new product, fire staff, compete aggressively modernize their operations, import or export) affects a multitude of people who have no voice in the marketplace classic, but that increasingly create new market conditions, through social pressure, moral admonitions or legislation. Hence the company is the key institution of economic life, the manifestation of creativity and personal freedom. It is essentially a human group that some men will bring capital, others work and others, address, with the consequent purposes:

Paul Volcker What Do With The Banks

Paul Volcker is rock and roll. It is likely, and given the benefit of hindsight, the best boss I have had the Fed. What he says is what you should do, but vested interests are so powerful, maybe even half of what he says will eventually be done. But it should be done. The following article “How To Reform Our Financial System” appeared in the New York Times (by Carlos Slim, of all people), so it goes for you, do not miss it, is a little long, but I have emphasized the essential paragraphs. Whoever wants to see the original note, click here. PRESIDENT OBAMA 10 days ago in September out one important element in the needed structural reform of the financial system. No one can reasonably contest the need for such reform, in the United States and in other countries as well. We have after all a system that broke down in the most serious crisis in 75 years.Here in the United States as elsewhere, some of the largest and proudest financial institutions – including both investment and commercial banks – have been rescued or merged with the help of massive official funds. Those actions were taken out of well-justified concern that their outright failure would irreparably impair market functioning and further damage the real economy already in recession. Now the economy is recovering, if still at a modest pace. Funds are flowing more readily in financial markets, but still far from normally. Discussion is underway here and abroad about specific reforms, many of which have been out in September by the United States administration: appropriate capital and liquidity requirements for banks better official supervision on the one hand and on the other improved risk management and board oversight for private institutions a review of accounting approaches toward financial institutions, and others. As President Obama has emphasizes, some structural core issues have not yet been satisfactorily addressed. A large concern is the residue of moral hazard from the extensive and successful Efforts of central banks and governments to rescue failing large and potentially failing financial institutions. The long-established “safety net” undergirding the stability of commercial banks – deposit insurance and lender of last resort facilities – has been both reinforced and extended in a series of ad hoc decisions to support investment banks, mortgage providers and the world’s largest insurance company. In the process, managements, creditors and to some extent stockholders of these non-banks have been protected. The phrase “too big to fail” has entered into our everyday vocabulary. It carries the implication that really large, complex and highly interconnected financial institutions can count on public support at critical times. The sense of public outrage over seemingly unfair treatment is palpable.Beyond the emotion, the result is To provide those institutions with a competitive advantage in their financing, in their size and in their ability to take and absorb risks. As things stand, the consequence will be to Enhance incentives to risk-taking and leverage, with the implication of an even more fragile financial system.

Innovation Process The

Innovation Process The notion of innovation as process places emphasis on how this is perceived and produced, at different stages to give rise (conception, creation, research, development, production and marketing) and how these articulate “(Taken from the book” Technological innovation in Colombian industry “Colciencias and the Colombian Observatory of Science and Technology, 2003. p. 41). Process innovation-a revolutionary new approach that fuses information technology with human resource management, can dramatically improve business performance. In the demanding environment of the 1990s, the mere formulation of the strategy is not enough, it is also essential to design the processes to effectively implement the strategy. Based on new technologies and motivated workers, process innovation is based on the commitment of top management with a strategic vision.Its scope is broad and crosses many roles within the company. Their goals are ambitious-firms that embark on process innovation usually seek tenfold improvement in their performance on cost, time or quality. For example, IBM reduced from seven days to one time of preparation of tenders for the purchase or lease a computer, in addition to preparing a number of offers ten times greater. The American treasury collection by 33 over their delinquent taxpayers with half the staff and one third of the delegations. An analysis of NYSE suggests that the redesign of the procurement process could save hundreds of millions of dollars a year to buyers and sellers.

Benefits and drawbacks

Benefits and drawbacks of a research panel The main advantages are: The initial recruitment effort is amortized over time, as there is a new “wave” of studies. The standing panels are considered a socially responsible technology research because they reduce the need for surveys “massive” to society at large each time you need to obtain quantitative information of a particular group of people. The information obtained with a very objective panel. If the panel size is adequate (number of panelists enough considering the size of the universe or target market to be analyzed), the conclusions drawn from studies carried out against therein, are representative findings. That is, statistically extrapolated to the whole universe or target market.In this regard it is important to note that any conclusion drawn from a representative market survey should be accompanied by statistical error or representation linked to the design of the study. Regular information coming from the same group of people you provide the best estimate of trends and changes in the market. The main drawback is that it provides information on qualitative aspects. For example, a consumer panel can provide the yearly consumption of yogurt per person, per family …, with details of container size, type of yogurt … but never show the reason why the buyer is changing its taste from one container to another, from one flavor to another …

Mapuche Nation Myth or Reality

The original companies with patent, 1660-82 Charles II was a patron and interested in the theater. Shortly after its restoration in 1660 granted exclusive rights of representation, called letters patent, the King’s Company and the Duke’s Company, led by two middle-aged playwright Caroline, Thomas Killigrew and William Davenant. The patented fought for the rights of representation of works from the previous generation, Jacobean and Caroline, which involved the first necessity for economic survival that may arise before any new work. His next priority was to build new, patent splendid theaters at Drury Lane and Dorset Gardens, respectively. Striving to outdo each other in magnificence, Killigrew and Davenant theaters were eventually quite similar, both designed by Christopher Wren, both suitable for music and dance, and both equipped with mobile scenarios and elaborate machinery to produce thunder, lightning and waves.The audience of the early Restoration period was not exclusively a courtesan, as sometimes alleged, but was quite small and could hardly keep two companies. There was no untapped reserves of theatergoers. Ten consecutive performances were a resounding success. This system is so closed forcing playwrights to be extremely sensitive to popular taste. The changing fashions in drama every week, more than one season to another, as each company reacted to the offers of the other, and are urgently looking for new works. The King’s Company and the Duke’s Company competed for public favor, by popular actors, and new works, and in this climate, new genres were born and flourished as the heroic drama, pathetic drama and comedy of the Restoration.

From a friend: 10 useful addresses.

This entry is a contribution of Richard (who still is not involved “directly” in this blog …). Our most sincere thanks. (For more than someone can be … El Salvador …). When the Internet connection is not good, one of the most basic services to which we can go is to email. In addition you may be able to check your mail from your mobile via GPRS or 3G. It may also be that you travel and connect to an Internet cafe to have very limited internet access or can not read a PDF. Here are shown 10 email addresses with which you can do more than send a simple message, and can be used to convert documents, viewing web pages, etc.. 1. Pdf koolwire.com: If you have an Office document or an image you want to convert to PDF, send to this address as an attachment to your e-mail. Within seconds you will receive it converted to PDF in your email. More info on Koolwire. 2. photos.flickr.com: Flickr provides an email account (individual for each user) from which you can upload your images. The title (subjective) e is the title of the photo, and what you put in the message body is what appears in the description. 3.e xpenser.com: You can use this address to keep up to date expenses. You’ll have to send the data in the message title as follows Category Quantity Description and xpenser keep them so they do not have to worry about anything else. 4. Blogger.com.If you use Blogger or WordPress to manage your blog, you can enable an email account to post your posts. 5.upload upload.slideshare.net: this URL to upload your PowerPoint presentations or PDF files to Slideshare and share with friends. 6.

Sports Inside

Sports Inside the Toyota Center in a game the Rockets. Minute Maid Park, home of the Astros. Houston has teams for nearly every major professional sports, Houston Astros (MLB), Houston Texans (NFL), Houston Rockets (NBA), Houston Dynamo (MLS), Eros Houston (AHL), Houston Wranglers (WTT), Houston Takers ( ABA), Houston Energy (IWFL), Houston Leones (PDL) and H-Town Texas Cyclones (NWFA). Minute Maid Park (home of the Astros) and Toyota Center (home of the Rockets and Eros) are located in the downtown. The city has the Reliant Astrodome, the first domed stadium in the world, and the first NFL stadium with a retractable roof on Reliant Stadium. Other sports facilities include the Hofheinz Pavilion, Reliant Arena (former home of the Comets), Robertson Stadium (used by the University of Houston and Houston Dynamo), and Rice Stadium (stadium football team of the Rice University).The little-used Reliant Astrodome hosted WrestleMania X-Seven, the World Wrestling Entertainment on 1 April 2001 with a record attendance of 67,925 spectators. The city also hosted the WrestleMania V at Reliant Stadium on April 5 2009. Houston has hosted recent important sporting events such as the All-Star Game Major League Baseball 2004 All-Star Game IHL 2000, the World Series 2005, the end of the football championship of the Big 12 Conference 2005, the All-Star Game NBA 2006, the U.S. Men’s Clay Court Championships since 2001, the Tennis Masters Cup in 2003 and 2004 and the annual golf tournament Shell Houston Open. From 2009, Houston Stanford Financial will host the Tour Championship tournament of the season finale of the LPGA golf. Each February the city is disputed in the Minute Maid Classic college baseball and the Texas Bowl in December of college football.Houston has hosted the Super Bowl twice, in 1974 was held at Rice Stadium and in 2004 at Reliant Stadium. Between 1998 and 2001, played the Grand Prix of Houston, after a hiatus of five years, Champ Car World Series race restored in 2006 and 2007 in the streets around the Reliant Park complex. However, Champ Car merged with the rival Indy Racing League (IRL) in 2008 and left the race in Houston.

The microenvironment

The microenvironment the microenvironment of the Company is assessed by the Competition Model Larger Model distinguishes the different factors causing influences on the Company. These actors are: Suppliers who negotiate higher prices, direct competition which measures the intensity of rivalry in the sector, customers who are forced down prices, and integrity. Collateral is what is the immediate environment to the Company, located in the vicinity of the departments of the company. Intra marketing to make it all work for the market. Marketing intermediaries would be another important group, are what enable the company to remain with the value chain to final consumer. Would the wholesale and retail distributors, logistics companies, and so on. The marketing services agencies, telemarketing, market research institutes, etc.. And finally the financial services. Another important sector providers would microenvironment.They would also be included, customers, competitors and stakeholders (interest groups in the business)

The Model T

The Model T T The Model T Ford appeared on the market on 1 October 1908 and had a lot of innovations. For example, had the steering wheel to the left, this being something that the vast majority of other companies soon copied. All engine and transmission were closed, the four cylinders were embedded in a solid block and the suspension worked through two semi-elliptic springs. The car was very easy to drive and, most importantly, very cheap and easy to repair. It was so cheap that, at a cost of U.S. 825 in 1908 (the price fell every year), by 1920 the vast majority of drivers had learned to drive in the Ford T. The plan was to make simple and inexpensive cars for mass consumption of the average American family. Until then the car had been an object of crafting and cost prohibitive for very limited audiences.Ford put the automobile within reach of the middle class by putting it in the era of mass consumption. Ford also took care to establish a massive advertising in Detroit, ensuring that in every newspaper stories and ads appear on their new product. Your local franchise system allowed the car was available in every city in North. UU. For their part, dealers (independent entrepreneurs) were enriched and helped publicize the idea of racing, beginning to develop automobile clubs to help out drivers and the city beyond. Ford was happy to sell to farmers, who watched the car as an invention more to support their work. Sales took off. For several years there were beating their own records last year. The sales exceeded 250,000 vehicles in 1914.For his part, always on the lookout for cost reduction and increased efficiency, Ford introduced its plants in 1913 tapes mobile assembly, which allowed a huge increase in production. The method, based on the working mode of the slaughterhouses of Detroit, was to install an assembly line based transmission belts and sliding guides who were automatically moving the chassis of the car to the posts where successive groups of workers engaged the tasks assigned it, until the car was completely finished. The system of interchangeable parts, tested long before American weapons factories and watches, cheaper production and repairs by way of standardization of product. While it is usually given the cr to Ford for this idea, contemporary sources indicate that the concept and development of employees departed Clarence Avery, Peter E. Martin, Charles E. Sorensen and CH Wills.By 1916 the price had fallen to 360 for the basic car, reaching a sales figure of 472,000. By 1918 half the cars in the U.S.. UU. were the Model T Ford. Ford wrote in his autobiography that “any customer can have the color car you want as long as it’s black.” Until the invention of the assembly line in which the color was black was used because it had a shorter drying time, yes there were Ford Model T in other colors, including red. The design was fervently promoted and defended by Henry Ford, and production continued until the end of 1927. The final total was 15,007,034 units, a record that remained for the next 45 years.One of the latest models of Ford T The production chain, with which Ford revolutionized the automobile industry, was a risky bet, because only viable if a lawsuit was able to absorb its massive production, the size of the U.S. market offered a framework environment, but Ford also correctly assessed the purchasing power of average U.S. man at the door of the consumer society. Whenever there is such demand, manufacturing chain able to save working time lost by not having to move workers from one place to another factory, leading so far as the recommendations of the “scientific organization of work” by Frederick W. Taylor. Each operation was compartmentalized intoa series of mechanical and repetitive tasks, which no longer have value or craft technical skills of the workers, and the nascent industry could make better use of unskilled labor of immigrants who arrived en masse to the United . UU.each year. The costs of training the workforce is reduced, while the deskilling of labor activity eliminated the awkward demands of the trade unions (based on the qualifications of its members), which were the only unions that were strong in the U.S. at that time. UU.

I miss everything that is not

I’m starting to realize why the why. Gone are the days of enchantment and idealization, the time to be disgusted with my country and love of all that was outside its borders, and now beginning to realize that some things are one thing, and some other things are other thing. In Barcelona, I like order, responsibility and citizenship of people. I like it when complete strangers do not vent their aggression and frustration autoprofesada, because, in my face. I like that services and public bodies work, and work well. I like that people do not look at me or judge me for free on the street. I like that I know nothing about respect me. I like to have lost the habit of traveling by subway with one hand in her purse, and grab my backpack or my heavy bags when I go down the street. I like the quietness and the ease with which all follow the rules. I like that crimes of any kind are not common.I like not hear every day the number of people dying at home riddled after being robbed and tortured by children under eleven. I like not constantly feel afraid, I like not to feel constantly threatened, I like not to feel constantly under attack. I like to listen every day sentences into thought sexist, homophobic and to thought. I like not being surrounded by people who glorifies sexism and homophobia. I like discovering a city to walk alone at night is beautiful, I like my life is not jeopardized while I prove it. I like that newspapers talk a little of everything, not just of corruption, death, crime, political salads, illicit enrichment, alliances of power, crime rates, unemployment rates, growth of slums, increase in lower class , increased the upper class, middle class disappearing, marches, strikes, grief, repression, dissatisfaction, unhappiness. I like to have lost the habit of wanting to die a few.I like to have learned that the most effective is to wish them happy. I like the streets of Barcelona. I like the beach. Amenities. The movement “progressive” and “dissociative” in the city. New York I like it. I like everything. And I live and I enjoy it as could be. Day by day. With an indescribable gratitude. But none of this is mine. Nothing. On the street I just see strange faces. Languages and accents. Places outside. Barcelona is a party, and I’m invitadisimo. But I know of that organization. Neither the owner of the place. Not to serving drinks or the music happens. I know the other guests, and sometimes dancing alone is boring. And sad. Tourists enjoy themselves and feel at home. But who does not feel master of all when on vacation I like all the things this city has to offer. But it’s not just me, and I can not stay here just to enjoy it. All I do is wish them luck to my place.I can not say “hate Buenos Aires that has all this” and “I choose Barcelona because it has it” all I want is that Buenos Aires has also someday. Expecting that day comes, they can stop comparing. Trying to build all this. To have it, and enjoy it, and then be proud of my city and my country. Martin Espinach time ago told me, “Argentina’s only one thing strange, and everything that was not. Only now beginning to understand.