Essays about: "conglomerate"
Showing result 6 - 10 of 38 essays containing the word conglomerate.
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6. Artificial Intelligence in Sustainable Sourcing - An explorative study on Artificial Intelligence inside Sustainable Sourcing
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Graduate SchoolAbstract : This exploratory qualitative study aims to investigate how the technology “Artificial Intelligence” can aid a large multinational conglomerate company, IKEA, in solving some of their sustainable sourcing challenges. By mapping the challenges and investigating the opportunities for applying AI as a solution, and by highlighting the factors needed for successful adoption, this study concludes that AI can assist, to a certain degree, in solving some sustainable sourcing challenges. READ MORE
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7. Industry 4.0 : Overcoming the barriers of Industry 4.0 by effective change management
University essay fromAbstract : Background Industry 4.0 is the next industrial revolution. By connecting the industry with the IT development, cloud base solutions and in the end be able to monitor and act before implications occur. Implementing Industry 4. READ MORE
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8. Supply Chain Transparency- Benefits & Transformational Barriers
University essay from Lunds universitet/Teknisk logistikAbstract : Background Transparency of a supply chain is the extent to which all its stakeholders have a shared understanding of, and access to, the product-related information that they request, without loss, noise, delay, and distortion. Having access to accurate and timely information is a challenging issue in global supply chains. READ MORE
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9. Private Equity and Long-Term Investment: Evidence from Sweden
University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för finansiell ekonomiAbstract : There is a long-lasting debate on whether private equity (PE) firms invest long-term in portfolio firms, or if their short investment horizon lead to long-term growth being sacrificed to boost short-term performance. In this thesis, we examine three types of long- term investments: changes in asset investments, innovative investments and investments in personnel. READ MORE
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10. Thriving towards extreme openness : A way of facilitating Fuzzy front-end activities by using communication technology
University essay from Luleå tekniska universitet/Institutionen för ekonomi, teknik och samhälleAbstract : Purpose – This study has two different purposes. First, we aim to understand and describe the new phenomenon of extreme openness within the area of open innovation by answering the following question: How can this new concept of extreme openness within the Fuzzy front-end be understood and described? The second purpose of this study is to investigate how Fuzzy front-end activities can be held at a distance by answer the following question: Which technology-based communication can facilitate distance-based Fuzzy front-end activities? Method – This study was conducted as an abductive single case-study of the Fuzzy front-end process where extreme openness is performed at a multinational conglomerate company. READ MORE