Motorola Global Strategy

Regarding high competition, lots of companies endeavor to discover the ways to enhance their production, to diminish cost or to locate the new market place to invest. The best way to face competitors is to find the place that has low labor cost to create new products into new markets. Asia is anticipated to sustain those demands. Despite the crises of Asia in1997, a lot of Asian countries are still in the high-quality location for investment. Among those countries, the most interesting country is China. She is proper for multinational companies to allocate their products within those regions and to create the new market. In this paper, we focus on how multinational companies invest in China. Due to great performances in each section of this country, she would be the most appealing country for multinational companies in the way of market size and welcome government policy. The telecommunication industry is the product that could break through barriers and overcome any competitor\u27s product. According to the huge success of Motorola, we desire to move this product into that region and we have self-assuredly that this product can meet the demand of both domestic and intercontinental sectors by using global strategy management such as market globalization drivers, government drivers and competitive globalization drivers

Keen Mobility\u27s Manufacturing Options-A Startup Company\u27s

Abstract: Keen Mobility is a new company which is releasing its Keen crutch to the public on March 14th, 2003. The company was started 18 months with the goal of developing and innovating underarm or axillary crutches. Even with a marketable product change will always occur. In eyeing the initial goal of developing a crutch with specific innovative features the best economical solution was not always pursued. Production for the current product is being done locally with the cost per pair of crutches over $110. Keen Mobility is currently entertaining offers from numerous companies that have production ties overseas. They claim that Keen Mobility could reduce their production costs significantly and therefore make more net profit, even though there is a significant investment in tooling and fixtures already. Is this really true? What is the best alternative for this young company? The current plan for Keen Mobility is to produce the crutch locally until the beginning of the 4th quarter of 2003. Before that time a decision will have been made to keep the status quo or produce the crutch overseas and ship it to Keen Mobility in Portland

Investigating Intel\u27s Project Management-The D1C Tool Installation Process

Abstract: This is study of Intel Corporation\u27s project management process. Specifically the tool install in the constrcution of the D1C facility. Investigated are Intel\u27s corporate structure, project selection and monitoring, the budget, scheduling, project control, auditing, and termination. Also the roles and responsibilities of the project managers are investigated

Call Center Scheduling: Research Data Design Inc.

Research Data Design (RDD) Inc. uses commissioned survey takers. They used to set their commissions on a flat per completed survey for a given project. The problem was that at the beginning of the survey when there were no demographic restrictions people would be working hard and motivated to come to work, but at the end of the survey, when the demographic restrictions were building up, it got a lot harder. Employees would be unwilling to work since they knew it was going to be difficult to get commissions. So they changed it, at the beginning of the survey the commission rates are low, at the end of the survey the commission rates get higher to motivate people at the end of the project to find those last remaining hard to find people. The problem is that they assign people to multiple projects at a time and they set how many hours in a day a person must at least attempt to try to get completed surveys. The issue that needs to be solved is: how to set the schedule each day (the commission rates change each day based on how little a number of surveys are still needed) in such a way that the opportunities (possible commission rates/day) are evenly distributed among the survey takers and still providing adequate coverage to the projects

Project Management Framework Proposal: for Office of Information Technology at Portland State University

Our team project is aimed at concluding if the Office of Information Technology (OIT) at Portland State University (PSU) has a project management framework. If OIT at PSU already has a project management framework in place, we will be looking at improving the existing framework in order to enhance performance related issues. In this regard, our team functioned as a group of consultants with the objective of implementing a project management office or center of excellence for OIT at PSU. We focused on the possibilities of standardizing aspects of the proposed model in order to minimize redundancy issues. Initially, a questionnaire was used for the purpose of collecting vital information related to the existing project management methodologies in OIT at PSU. We distributed the questionnaire to each OIT project/department manager. Most of the questions are based on the hexagon of excellence, portfolio management, and portfolio strategies. Also, we conducted a personal interview with the two of the department directors for OIT at PSU in order to get more specific details as to their opinions on the existing processes or procedures. Next, we analyzed the compiled information and compared it to the project management conceptual framework. Finally, our results in this report indicate suggestions for improvement in managing project management in OIT at PSU

Influence of EI Elements on Individual Success of Student in ETM Department

Abstract This paper investigates the relationship between Emotional Intelligence (EI) and the successfulness of students in the ETM department at Portland State University. It shows that EI could be credited as an important component of success in school education