Name: Topic: Microsoft Specific Purpose: To inform my audience on the rise of Microsoft, how it was created, major accomplishments, and its future. Organizational Pattern: Related Subtopics I. Introduction A. Attention-Getting Opening If you dropped $1000 on the floor how fast would you pick it up? 2 seconds? 3 or maybe 4?
The Death of Nicholas Flamel Nicholas Flamel was born around 1325. He died soon after June of 1992. Flamel was able to live for so long because, as clearly one of the most brilliant wizards of all time, he had made the only known philosopher's stone. Despite his brilliancy and longevity, we are asked to believe that, although he had managed to keep the stone safe from who knows how many dark lords for approximately 600 years, he was unable to protect it from Voldemort and prevent its destruction in 1992. I'm not sure I believe it, so I've been exploring other possibilities for what may have happened.
No one was in charge of figuring out new business partners (carrying out due diligence) and negotiating deals with them- on the recommendation of Dev (based on one positive experience his cousin had with the company), the JV went ahead with Suriyapa Computers (SC) without comparing it to others and without doing a background check. There was no one designated exclusively for dealing with litigations and other legal problems like following up on cases with SC and Ritcher Bank or for suing Dev. Natoli dealt with everything from technical to infrastructural to legal to human resourcing to financials.
One of the major factors of success was Paul’s ability to be technically perfect as a pianist. He grew up as an only child with two parents whom had an immense passion for music. This allowed him to devote a lot of time mastering the piano. As a 15 year old he was already technically perfect whilst playing the intricately famous Beethoven, but it wasn’t always enough. Although Paul wanted to become a great musician like Keller, he failed.
They continue to develop new affordable automobiles with new advance technology that has captivated the suppliers, dealers, shareholders, employees and the communities. Ford continues to strive on their mission, vision and values. It all began with Henry Ford (1863-1947), where he stated “I will build a car for the great multitude” and that seems to be the cored for this giant automaker. They continue to stand by the father that started it all back in 1903 with a promising vision. In 1908 the birth of the model T car sold nearly 15,500.00 in the United States alone.
Many people have proven that a post-secondary education is not the slightest bit needed in order to become successful. Some of the world’s most successful people did not attend a post-secondary school, and others never even received their high school diploma. Famous entrepreneur Steve Jobs, founder and CEO of Apple Inc.; was described as Americas most powerful businessman, and only attended one semester of college. Bill Gates and Paul Allen; two very successful entrepreneurs, became the founders of the widely known company Microsoft. Both of these businessperson’s never got their degrees, and only attended university for a couple of years.
As one compares the two individuals, you can see even though Microsoft is a more popular choice, because of Steve Jobs, Apple has made a greater impact on today and has created a bigger legacy. Something that gave Gates more publicity was his charity donations. Bill Gates has invested a third of his wealth in charities around the world including one he started himself, which he eventually made his full-time job in 2008. Although Steve Jobs did not make any public donations, he has admitted to submitting anonymous donations and in his early years tried to start a foundation, but it fell through after a year. Both are businessmen, and both are trying to “revolutionize their respective fields” (Anderson).
To be an example that anything can be done. President John Hennessy starts the speech in front of students who were currently graduating at the time. He introduced Steven Jobs, the CEO of Apple computer and of Pixar Animation Studios. President John Hennessey makes a brief bio of Steve Jobs accomplishment in life. He makes his speech to tell Mr. Jobs accomplishment chronologically from the beginning of his accomplishments to the end.
Vermeer Technologies Inc. had 25 employees. According to my research, the company’s founder, Dr. Charles H. Ferguson (I believe that Dr. Ferguson is the protagonist in the case) wants to launch a new innovative product. The (core concepts) key issue in the case is the ventures initial penetration of the market and how that will challenge the entrepreneurial opportunistic involvement of the creation of an autonomous product/product division (accessible Web publishing to everyone in the form of “Shrink-wrap software”) in the rapidly growing market for Web services. One preliminary adaptability challenge is that, potential competitors will also identify that this is a huge market opportunity. Dr. Ferguson and Mr. Forgaard good business flexibility sense relates directly to the early release date (which would be determined by the degree of speed in which they could get the product to market).
"It's now possible for huge numbers of people to think together in ways we never imagined a few decades ago," says Thomas Malone of MIT's new Center for Collective Intelligence. "No single person knows everything that's needed to deal with problems we face as a society, such as health care or climate change, but collectively we know far more than we've been able to tap so far" (Miller, 2007,