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Lifecycle of a Technology Company


Product Details

  • Hardcover: 300 pages
  • Publisher: Wiley (January 9, 2008)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0470223928
  • ISBN-13: 978-0470223925
  • Product Dimensions: 6.4 x 1.1 x 9.2 inches

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Praise for Lifecycle of a Technology Company

"Lifecycle of a Technology Company is a comprehensive business and legal handbook for all but the most experienced technology entrepreneurs. I shared my copy with a few colleagues at MIT who have either started or are contemplating launching their own companies, and I had a real problem retrieving it. The data supports my opinion that this book will attain 'handbook' status on the desks of technology entrepreneurs."
-Dr. George B. Kenney, Associate Director Materials Processing & Microphotonics Centers at MIT

"This book will help entrepreneurs avoid the pitfalls on the long road to success for venture-backed technology companies. It distills a lifetime of experience in advising technology companies in a concise and understandable way."
-Howard Berke, Serial Entrepreneur and Venture Capitalist

"Lifecycle of a Technology Company provides a valuable resource for lawyers at a variety of experience levels. The junior lawyer will use this resource for the basics. More experienced lawyers with a broad practice will use this for a 'sanity check' relative to market terms and business rationale. In the trenches, it will assist lawyers by providing practical, plain speaking explanations for why things operate as they do in the finance, intellectual property, and merger & acquisition segments of the technology world. If you expect to represent technology clients, keep this book nearby."
-James O'Hare, Partner Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis, Boston

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Founding and nurturing a technology startup through its growth to a successful IPO or sale requires an understanding of the business terms, customary contractual provisions, legal background, tax issues, and "how-to's" applicable to each stage. Legal and business issues are intertwined, and mistakes are costly. Part legal primer, part business primer, Lifecycle of a Technology Company provides comprehensive and understandable advice about the key legal and business issues that arise over the life of an emerging growth company.
This guide is full of practical, hands-on advice for:
  • Entrepreneurs and executives who want an in-depth understanding of the legal milieu in which they operate
  • Venture capital and other investment professionals who want to better understand the legal rationale behind their investment deals with portfolio companies, as well as key legal issues facing these portfolio companies
  • Lawyers who would like to know, or need a refresher on, what they should be discussing with technology companies and other startup clients seeking advice on critical transactions
  • International lawyers, entrepreneurs, and investors who want insight into the legal and business aspects of the U.S. technology revolution
  • Law students who want to get a jump on real-world business law practice
  • Business school students who want to level the playing field for their first encounters with business lawyers
Lifecycle of a Technology Company covers issues relating to:
  • Choice of entity
  • Arrangements among the founders concerning equity compensation
  • Tricks and traps in venture financings and debt financings
  • Basics of intellectual property protec-tion and license agreements
  • How to conduct a private placement
  • How to prepare for an IPO
  • Fundamentals of public company regulation
  • The acquisition process and key nego-tiating points for buyers and sellers
Appendices include model or sample documents for a number of common trans-actions, as well as additional materials.
A must-read for anyone associated with a technology company, from entrepreneurs and CEOs and CFOs to venture capitalists, as well as their legal and professional advisors, Lifecycle of a Technology Company will guide readers through the many challenges, opportunities, and legal and business pitfalls that arise at every stage of their business.

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Life Cycle Management in Supply Chains




Product Details
Hardcover: 362 pages
Publisher: IGI Global; 1 edition (April 22, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1599045559
ISBN-13: 978-1599045559
Product Dimensions: 10.2 x 7.2 x 1 inches

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As the supply chain is the major arena for competition in modern business, and at each stage in the industrial life cycle it is necessary to adjust the management of the supply chain to remain competitive, there is a growing demand for authoritative research to clarify the supply chain structure and evolution through the industrial life cycle.
Life Cycle Management in Supply Chains: Identifying Innovations Through the Case of the VCR presents comprehensive, in-depth coverage of the intimate connection between the industry life cycle and supply chain management, utilizing the case of the industrial life cycle of the VCR to provide practitioners and researchers with key insight into the supply chain as the basic business unit for competition, and the requisite alteration of the management of the supply chain at each stage of the life cycle.

About the Author
Toru Higuchi is an associate professor of Logistics in the Department of Policy Studies at Sakushin Gakuin University in Utsunomiya, Tochigi prefecture, Japan. He was an associate editor of Journal of Public Utility Economics. He received a M.A from the School of Management at Gakushuin University in 1996. His publications have appeared in Computers & Operations Research, Journal of Public Utility Economics and others. His current research interests include supply chain management, business logistics, global logistics, and transfer pricing.

Marvin D. Troutt is a Professor in the Department of Management & Information Systems and in the Graduate School of Management at Kent State University, Kent, Ohio. He is a Fellow of the Decision Sciences Institute. He received the PhD in Mathematical Statistics from The University of Illinois at Chicago in 1975. His publications have appeared in Management Science, Decision Sciences, Journal of the Operational Research Society, European Journal of Operational Research, Operations Research, Decision Support Systems, Naval Research Logistics, Statistics, and others. He received the 2005 Distinguished Scholar Award at Kent State. He was formerly Director of the Center for Information Systems at Kent State and the Rehn Research Professor in Management at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois. He served as Visiting Scholar in the Department of Applied Mathematics at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University during 1994-95. His current interests include supply chain management, strategy, and planning.

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Integration and Competition between Transport and Logistics Businesses



Integration and Competition between Transport and Logistics Businesses 
International Transport Forum. Round Table 146
OECD/ECMT Round Tables | 26 Feb 2010 | ISBN: 9282102619 | 184 pages | File type: PDF | 5 mb 

This report examines market power in rail markets in Europe arising from horizontal and vertical mergers in the sector, and was intended to provide a high-level basis for discussion at the Round Table itself. The Round Table reviewed trends in horizontal and vertical integration in logistics businesses, maritime shipping, ports and rail freight transport and examined the circumstances in which integration might reduce the efficiency of the transport system.

Report presents factual information on horizontal and vertical merger cases involving rail freight operators, and highlights the processes used by competition authorities to determine the circumstances in which such mergers should be approved. It also provides commentary on the economics of these markets and, hence, the likely prospects for their future shape. 

Some very large multinational transport and logistics firms have emerged to provide integrated transport services to shippers in the globalised economy. Do these firms escape regulatory oversight from national competition authorities because of their sheer scale? Do they pose additional threats to competition when they merge with or acquire other companies in thesupply chain?

The Round Table brought competition experts together with researchers on maritime shipping, rail freight and logistics to identify critical competition issues and appropriate regulatory responses. An examination of the strategies of transport and logistics companies reveals that vertical integration can yield efficiencies, but usually reflects a need to improve the use of expensive fixed assets rather than control all parts of the supply chain. This usually explains why shipping lines acquire terminal operators. Horizontal acquisitions, where similar companies serving the same market merge, are more likely to raise competition concerns. Problems are particularly prone to arise at bottleneck infrastructure facilities.

The Round Table report provides an economic framework for examining competition in global transport and logistics businesses, discusses the adequacy of the remedies available to regulators when competition is threatened, and explores the role of competition authorities and Transport Ministries in ensuring markets are efficient.

Table of Contents 
Summary of Discussions 
Empirical Evidence for Integration and Disintegration of Maritime Shipping, Port and Logistics Activities 
Market Power and Vertical and Horizontal Integration in the Maritime Shipping and Port Industry
Railway and Ports Organisation in the Republic of South Africa and Turkey: the Integrator��s Paradise? 
Are Horizontal Mergers and Vertical Integration a Problem? 
List of Participants
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Toyota Supply Chain Management


  • Hardcover: 240 pages
  • Publisher: McGraw-Hill; 1 edition (May 14, 2009)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0071615490
  • ISBN-13: 978-0071615495
  • Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.2 x 0.9 inches 

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The Toyota Production System is the benchmark used throughout the world for “lean” thinking. Now you can model your own processes after those of the company that “wrote the book on supply chain management.”
Written by two experts on the subject, along with a former Toyota senior executive, this book details the most celebrated supply chain operation in the world to help you form an integrated, synchronized system that will be the envy of your industry.
You will find key insight into the logic behind every point of Toyota’s supply chain, along with both the tactics and strategies you can use to build an outstanding system of your own. Toyota Supply Chain Management explains how to achieve balance and efficiency by focusing on:
  • Variety: Determine your variety of offerings based on operational efficiency and market demand
  • Velocity: Maintain a steady flow through all processes of the supply chain
  • Variability: Manage inconsistencies carefully to reduce cost and improve quality
  • Visibility: Ensure the transparency of all processes to enable continuous learning and improvement
The authors provide valuable insider tips and offer hands-on guidance for improvingproduction and operations in a variety of industries, including health care, insurance, banking, credit processing, and retailing.
With careful attention paid to every aspect of the subject—from principles and theories to operations and best practices—Toyota Supply Chain Management is the most comprehensive, insightful guide to forging a world-class supply chain system.

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Top management secrets to building a world-clas supply chain Three industry insiders cover every link in Toyota’s supply chain, explaining the operations and the logic behind them. Toyota Supply Chain Management will help you design and oversee significant improvements to your supply chain, including
  • Sales planing
  • Production scheduling
  • Supplier Management
  • Logistics
  • Parts ordering
  • Demand fulfillment
The authors pool their extensive and well-rounded knowledge to provide “how-to” insights for applying the lessons of Toyota in any industry. Using this book as your guide, you can create operational efficiency by better connecting offices, plants, facilities, and vendors.
Apply the lessons of Toyota to ensure your company leads the race for growth and profits in today’s competitive economy.

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