Subject: Innovation and technology management

When new technologies arrive, only a few customers adopt such technologies. A large number of customer remain sceptical about the product. The cost of the new technology remain high. As a result it take long time for the businesses to focus on the new technology until the dominant design comes and the price become affordable by the large number of consumers. From your point of view, what might be the reasons established firms might resist adopting a new technology.

Analysis of the Shoe Corporation of Illinois.

Analyze the organizational structure of Shoe Corporation, including how the corporate culture there has impacted the structure.

What suggestions do you have for improvement in information flow?

How would you characterize the current interdependence between departments? What management techniques would you use to help facilitate change given the interdependence within the company?

Given that the president’s intent is to change shoe styles frequently, how could innovation be fostered?

Has protection for proprietary software gone too far, as some critics suggest? (b) If not, why? (c) If so, what are the implications for innovation and competition in the computer industry? (d) How can we achieve an appropriate balance between those who hold legal rights to proprietary information and ordinary users who wish to access, share, and communicate that information? Defend your answer. Please elaborate (beyond a yes or no answer) and provide your “theoretical” rationale in support of your responses. (knowledge)

In this chapter, the virtues of perfect competition have been highlighted. Among the benefits of perfect competition, no buyer or seller taken alone can affect market prices. Also, efficiency is obtained since firms will produce at full capacity. While some economists praise perfect competition in the sense that it allows to achieve tremendous efficiency. Some economists argue that perfect competition is unnecessary and irrelevant since it may hinder innovation and invention. Provide your arguments for or against perfect competition.

organizational change essay using the article: changing the change rules at Google, and determine why they were successful in changing their employees behavior in approximately 750 word essay, address the following:

evaluate what happens when change is not managed with an organization and what impact can it have on employees

identify ways change fatigue can b avoided in a organization where innovation and change is constant.

discuss who should be involved in change management strategies to ensure a greater success

Microsoft Canada has asked you to critically evaluate their branding and positioning of the surface line of products. How can the company capitalize on the innovation of their products such that they differentiate themselves from their competitors? In your recommendation, you might consider strategies to differentiate each individual product within the surface line, identify target markets and best ways to reach them, and recommend creative solutions to propel the Surface line of products to become the laptop of choice within its respective competitive space.

Esquire Comic Book Company had income before tax of $1,450,000 in 2021 before considering the following material items:
  

1. Esquire sold one of its operating divisions, which qualified as a separate component according to generally accepted accounting principles. The before-tax loss on disposal was $385,000. The division generated before-tax income from operations from the beginning of the year through disposal of $590,000.
2. The company incurred restructuring costs of $50,000 during the year.

  
Required:
Prepare a 2021 income statement for Esquire beginning with income from continuing operations. Assume an income tax rate of 25%. Ignore EPS disclosures. (Amounts to be deducted should be indicat with a minus sogn)

1. What was used before enzymes, if anything before celiac disease and lactose intolerance.

2. Discuss why lactase are being used:Does it have higher yields and less waste?

X Corporation appropriately uses the installment-sales method of accounting to recognize income in its financial statements. The following information is available for 2020 and 2021.