Hedgehog

D. Company Analysis Background & Context Initially founded as Everett City Lines in 1893, Everett Transit is the public transit authority for Everett, Washington. This organization was created in order to help fill the transportation void of near the turn of the century. People needed a reliable way to travel from one location to another, and thus Everett Lines was born. Dissimilar from the rest of Snohomish County, who operate under Community Transit, Everett Transit operates its own city wide…

Chapter six focuses on the need to have a culture of discipline. A Good to Great Company, has self-disciplined employees that work within a structured framework yet has the freedom and responsibility to make decisions within the framework. These individuals are extremely self-disciplined and do not need managing, they are willing to go above and beyond to meet their requirements. This discipline is from within the individual not a directive from the leader. Collins refers to this as “rinsing…

Shubin starts off by telling us about his discovery of Tiktaalik, a fish which represents the evolutionary transition between fish and primitive land-living animals. Shubin states that, “Tiktaalik has a shoulder, elbow, and wrist composed of the same bones as an upper arm, forearm, and wrist in a human,” showing its connections to the human body. He then moves onto the history of our hands, referring to Sir Richard Owen’s discovery that there was a fundamental design in all vertebrate land…

“Good to Great” I highly recommend this book for everyone that is in business. The core concepts are invaluable for any size of business. The book shows that building a great organization proceeds in four basic stages; Disciplined People, Disciplined Thought, Disciplined Action, and Building Greatness to Last. Jim Collins and his team of researchers used strict benchmarks to identify a group of eleven elite companies that made the leap from good to great and sustained that greatness for at…

Alien force or man made? Crop circles is a natural or unnatural phenomenon that has been appearing in farmers land for decades. Revealing themselves in daylight no one knows for sure where or who is the cause. There have been many speculations and claims regarding their existence. From sanctural causes, to aliens, to man kind, to magnetic fields, and even government authority. Evidence is subverted and conclusions are still not made about these mysterious circles. The earliest claimed crop…

and dread. I’ve lived through one and know this first hand. Our firm bought a transportation firm to break through a new market for the company. This maneuver was in direct contrast to Jim’s findings. Transportation was not the center of our Hedgehog Concept and we had no momentum to build with. We tried to create the flywheel instead of accelerating it. I guess we were one of the contrast companies. We tried to diversify our way to success to increase growth and this failed miserably.…

During my final semester in graphic design class, I created the design for a cat in a shirt pocket. Although it was for a class project, I instantly knew I wanted to offer my shirt design to others by making an online store. I named it Poco Pets and have been dreaming up, drawing, and planning it for the past year. Now I have come to Kickstarter to make the shirts a reality. Poco Pets shirts are pocketed tees with a variety of lovable pets chilling in the pockets. Each shirt is…

studied here to understand whether there should be the age dependent eESC. To understand the enthesis regeneration, the investigation of the crosstalk between the TGFb and hedgehog pathways is proposed to support the eESC capacity of the…

In the book “the Signal and the noise”, author Nate Silver talks about prediction from many different angles. Silver explains how prediction is a part of our everyday life and how it affects us. From math to history, inside of a class room or on a court/field, prediction is something we deal with on a day to day basis unconsciously. Silver talks about the benefits of failure and how failure is helpful in the long run with making predictions. Throughout the years we have made progress with…

Unlike a lot of people, I had not started playing Sonic games until I owned Sonic Adventure DX for the Nintendo Gamecube. By this time, I only knew what I had learned from watching several YouTube videos, that he was a fast hedgehog who was a hero. But when I played the game, I not only loved the story, I loved the music. Each character had a specific vocal song for their theme, which was amazing to me. What really blew me away was the theme song for the whole game, which played…