Nowadays, trends show that market conditions are changing constantly and at a pace we have never seen before. New companies come into mature industries and completely disrupt them while existing companies that have been around for a long time are struggling to survive and to hold on to their ...
Chip-scale atomic clocksNavigation systems (GPS), communication systems, precision timing systems Energy sourcesMicroscopic fuel cells, supercapacitors, microbatteries, thermionic generators How MEMS are made MEMS devices and integrated circuit (IC) chips are manufactured via similar processes. Both start ...
Across industries, small and midsize businesses are seeing great benefits from embracing digital transformation – just like their larger counterparts. Cloud, advanced analytics and automation are some of the top technologies they use to achieve their goals of attracting and retaining new customers, str...
beSlick is a process and workflow management system that's well-suited to the needs of businesses in the hospitality and service-based industries. Why I picked beSlick:This software stands out for its focus on service-oriented process management, which is why I included it on my list. Its ...
However, comparisons of small public and private firms remain rather rare and the debate is typically linked to the performance of large public enterprises. Numerous scholars from China, such as Yin (2012) and Ji (2011), have drawn the conclusion that state-owned firms are “too big to fail...
Many small companies, in their rush to launch a new business, fall into traps that inhibit long-term growth. The stats for new-business survival are grim:Only 24 percentof new businesses launched in the past ten years have become viable large-scale enterprises. ...
and polyester fabrics like COOLMAX do not biodegrade when discarded. While COOLMAX EcoMade fibers address the issue of fossil fuel use in polyester production and initially reduce plastic pollution, these fibers are still made using formaldehyde, they contribute to microfiber pollution, and they inevi...
Infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS), platform-as-a-service (PaaS), software-as-a-service (SaaS) and serverless computing are the most common “as-as-service” cloud platform models. Most developers at large-scale organizations use some combination of all four. ...
are limited: more cooks in a small space get in each other's way. In economics charts, this has been illustrated with some flavor of a U-shaped curve, in which the average cost per unit falls and then rises. Costs rising as production volume grows is termed "diseconomies of scale." ...
An economy encompasses all of the activities related to the production, consumption, and trade of goods and services in an entity, whether the entity is a nation or a small town. No two economies are identical. Each is formed according to its own resources, culture, laws, history, and geog...