Paradigm shift

In today’s economic environment, it’s commonplace that hundreds of businesses downsize, restructure, and even fail. According to Richard Whitley (2001), the first of these companies to go are those that are not as committed to providing excellent customer service. The Profit Impact of Market Strategy project of the Strategic Planning Institute further proved Whitley’s claims during a study involving 3,000 business units in 450 companies. The analysis revealed that the top 20% of the business…

Apple Inc., a rebirth, a paradigm shift from a computer manufacturer to consumer devices has given Apple a resurgence in the marketplace. Defining the path forward, specifically for the launch of the new iPhone consumer device, we need to understand the forces that will impact the strategy moving forward, then define the strategy that will give the company sustained earnings in the future. To begin, we need to understand Apple Inc.’s product lines and where they are in the Industry Life Cycle…

I think that racism can be healed, I think racism is a condition of the mind that is a manifestation resulting from a collective way of thinking. The society that I am in, which is the same society that I feed, needs a paradigm shift. I don’t want to excuse the actions of others, but its time to move forward. I believe that life allows us to connect the dots looking backwards rather than forwards. History has allowed us to face the lessons we need to learn in order for us to avoid the traps in…

The reading of the week was Tool by Andrew Blauelt. We started the class by mentioning his example from the movie Odyssey: Intelligence is using and designing tools. With this in our mind we examined how our tools changed, how this changed us and the role of computer. Puckey says computer is not just a tool, in comparison to what I've seen in interviews of artists I admire such as Yuko Schimizu. She insists computer is just a tool but maybe that's because she's actually an illustrator. Puckey…

In a research article by Tomaskovic-Devey and Warren (2009), the writers attribute the practice of racial profiling to organizational practices and from individual prejudices and racists attitudes held by its practitioners (p. 35). Tomaskovic-Devey and Warren illustrate the organizational scope of racial profiling by examining the Drug Enforcement Administration’s 1984 initiative Operation Pipeline. The initiative trained approximately 25,000 state and local police officers how to identity…

community. Arab Spring refers to the democratic uprisings that spread across the Arab world in 2011. During the January Arab Spring protests, the government censored the internet, causing people to rally against them. The Arab Spring acted as a paradigm shift in the online world, and as a result, rules and regulations for the internet became harsher.[4] There are incredibly strict laws surrounding topics reporters may report on due to the fact that authorities who feel threatened by reform…

the prevention of more casualties and mass shootings. Whether you are in favor of gun rights or gun control, it is obvious from the abundance of mass shootings that have continued to become more common at a national level that America needs a paradigm shift in the way guns are viewed. Despite withholding opposite views on the issue, each side does not want to continue to fear for their child’s life every time they send him or her to school nor wake up to another news channel blaring sirens and…

schooling National Standards having influence over the chosen structure of classroom delivery, noting that ‘teaching to the test’ becomes the priority. Beane’s (1995) ideas argue towards the insistence of changing these existing paradigms noting that CI is a fundamental shift away from organising the curriculum around subject-specific lines calling the separate subject approach ‘deadening’ to both students and teachers…

Gwynne displays a duality between them by disclosing both culture’s paradigms of reality. Gwynne describes the Comanche normality of gang-raping and scalping, shortly after explaining the white man’s regularity of killing off natives in the name of manifest destiny. Gwynne acknowledges that the Plains Indians were savage…

students, and in some communities the achievement gap is growing rather than shrinking.” In her research on “Literacy and Identity in the Canadian Classroom” Cynthia Medford-Williams asserted that: “This diversity, arising from massive population shifts, is a reality not only in the Canadian classroom but in many other Western countries. Such rapid alterations in student demographics have been accompanied by a cycle of continuing…