Lucent Essays

  • Lucent Technologies

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    Lucent Technologies BACKGROUND In 1996, AT&T decided to split into three different companies. These new companies were the new AT&T, NCR, and Lucent Technologies. Lucent Technologies is one of the leading designers, developers, and manufacturers of telecommunications systems, software, and products.1 They are beginning to emerge as a Fortune 40 company. Lucent Technologies builds local networks, business telephone systems, and consumer telephones that access the global networks.2 Lucent Technologies

  • Business Case Study - Lucent Technologies

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    Business Case Study - Lucent Technologies Executive Summary Lucent Technologies is a global leader in communications and software development. This report briefly overlooks its evolution, its achievements since its inception and its mission and targets. Born as a result of a spin-off of a unit of AT&T and relying on Bell Laboratories for its innovations, Lucent has expanded and grown at a tremendous rate in a very short time. Introduction Lucent Technologies Inc. was formed in November

  • Business Leadership

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    success, but there are those who still practice human relations. Many companies demonstrate both models, proving employer/employee relationships in today’s companies continue to range the spectrum. Two guiding companies of the human resource model are Lucent Technologies and Miller Brewing Company. The employees of these firms have been empowered with the ability to work in teams and achieve goals on their own. This flexibility has resulted in creativity and productivity unseen before. The effect: greater

  • Book Review of Hot Buttons: How to Resolve Conflict and Cool Everyone Down

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    resolution and diversity issues. As president of the consulting firm Sybil Evans Associates, Evans is a widely sought after trainer and speaker, enriching the relationship skills of individuals and Fortune 500 companies, including Campbell's Soup, Avon, Lucent Technologies, and AT&T. She is also the author of "Resolving Conflict in a Diverse Workplace". - Sherry Suib Cohen is the author of eighteen Books, a contributing editor to McCall's, and an award-winning member of the American Society of Journalists

  • ATTs use of Total Quality Management

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    ATTs use of Total Quality Management The following is an attempt to analyze AT&T's use of Total Quality Management throughout its organization. Since AT&T is an elaborately enormous corporation I will focus my study to AT&T Power Systems/Lucent Technologies. This division of AT&T has been the industry standard for excellence since TQM was first introduced to the company. AT&T Power Systems has become one the world's most dynamic companies because of its use of TQM. I will provide a brief description

  • AT&T Telephone Company

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    percent. You can see why AT+T has a presence in nearly 100 countries around the world, and does business in about 200 countries. In the last fifteen months AT+T has split into three separate companies. They are AT+T, a global communications company; Lucent Technologies, a technological company;...

  • The AT&T Restructuring of 1995

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    equipment company would include AT&T's Network Systems Group, Global Business Communications Systems, Consumer Products, AT&T Paradyne and Microelectronics. The new company named Lucent Technologies, would be a powerful competitor in the fast-growing communications systems market. Henry B. Schacht was designated Lucent Technologies Chief Executive Officer. The company's computer unit AT&T Global Information Solutions (GIS), would be established as an independent company by spinning it off to AT&T

  • Traveling to Tokyo, Japan

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    business trip. I will be traveling with five other members of my organization at Lucent Technologies to assist Lucent- Japan in their process of developing and implementing an Indirect Channel in their country. Since I will be living in Tokyo for six months, it is expected of me to research and learn as much as possible about the Japanese culture and the proper etiquette expected of me as a representative of Lucent Technologies, Inc. Flight Information: To search for the best priced Round

  • Telecommunication Industry Essay

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    TOP 10 TELECOMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT COMPANIES IN THE WORLD 2014 Telecommunication equipments industry is a highly dynamic industry, which is growing at a rapid rate. Different players in this industry are trying to focus and invest largely in R&D. Deregulation, technological convergence and globalization are the three major underlying factors that affected the dynamics of the telecommunication industry during the 1990s. This highly affected the telecommunication industry also. This character led to

  • Critical Chain Project Management

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    Brief History In the 1997, Critical Chain Project Management developed by Dr Eli Goldratt from his Theory of Constraints book “Critical Chain”. This method was designed specifically for project environment. CCPM is being presented as an alternative to the old methods for project planning and control, such as those contained in the management within standards such as the PMI Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK).Therefore, Critical Chain Project Management have claims from both

  • The Effects of a Bust Economy on Audit Risk

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    expenses to keep the company in a positive financial standing. Many high-tech related company’s experienced a devastating blow to their financials after the technology bubble burst of 2000, which was marked by two large fraud scandals. First, was Lucent Technologies Inc, a communication equipment provider, which began to inflate revenue of $1.2 billion after management became overwhelmed from the significant decrease in telecommunication equipment spending (Belson, 2004 para. 1). Included in the

  • AT&T: Twenty Years Of Change

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    Case Report: AT&T: Twenty Years of Change AT&T Case depicts the history of 130 years old giant company, which served its customers in telecommunications area. From its foundation by Graham Bell in 1875 to the restructuring decision in 2000, the company had many key events to be studied in terms of several strategic management point of views. This paper mainly focuses on external environment issues and corporate-level strategies. Analysis with respect to Corporate-Level Strategy After the foundation

  • osama bin laden

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    friend said, to learn that the Americans — the enemy, in his mind — would defend it instead. To him, it was the height of American arrogance” (The Most Wanted Face of... ... middle of paper ... ...oups. Ed. Stephen Currie. San Diego: Lucent Books, 2002. 69-83. Lucent Terrorism Library. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 13 Mar. 2014. "Osama bin Laden." Encyclopedia of World Biography. Vol. 22. Detroit: Gale, 2002.Biography in Context. Web. 14 Mar. 2014. Schabner, Dean, and Karen Travers. "Osama

  • Noel Bennett's Halo The Sun

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    The high development of languages around the world is arguably humanity’s most remarkable feat. Without it, we would be not much better off than monkeys or gorillas. Whether seeking to persuade, to inform, to express emotions, to question, to transmit ideas, or even to deliver masterpieces in verse or prosaic, people use language in order to communicate effectively in ways that are simply too arduous to quantify. Language, furthermore, is also not limited to just writing or word of mouth, for it

  • The Roles of Women in Ancient Rome and in the Middle Ages

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    uk/history/ancient/romans/roman_women_01.shtml. British Library. “Learning Medieval Realms: Women.” Accessed April 9, 2014. http://www.bl.uk/learning/histcitizen/medieval/women2/medievalwomen.html. Dean, Ruth, and Melissa Thomson. Women of the Middle Ages. Michigan: Lucent Books, 2003. History Learning Site. “Medieval Women.” Accessed April 14, 2014. http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/medieval_women.htm. Lassieur, Allison. The Ancient Romans. Canada: Scholastic Inc., 2004 PBS. “The Roman Empire: Women

  • Keats’ Love for Fanny Brawne in The Eve of St. Agnes

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    Keats’ Love for Fanny Brawne in The Eve of St. Agnes “For myself I know not how to express my devotion to so fair a form: I want a brighter word than bright, a fairer word than fair. I almost wish we were butterflies and liv’d but three summer days—three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain” –John Keats to Fanny Brawne (Bate 538). As the colloquial phrase goes…behind every great man, lies a great woman, but in John Keats’ case, the woman

  • Ancient Roman Beast Hunting

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    The beast hunts were held in the Colosseum or the amphitheaters across the Roman Empire as the first event in the morning of The Games before the executions and gladiator games. The purpose of the beast hunts was to show the wealth of the editor, or giver of The Games, and for the Romans to show their political authority in being able to obtain animals from far distant places. Also, beast hunts symbolized the power of man's control over nature. For the Romans, greater numbers and varieties of animals

  • Personal Experience: My Life as a Monk

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    Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire Abbey. Sacred Destinations, 30 July 2010. Web. 06 Mar. 2014. . Lace, William W. A Life for God: The Medieval Monastery. Detroit, MI: Lucent /Thomson Gale, 2006. Print. Martin, Phillip. "Middle Ages for Kids." Middle Ages for Kids. N.p., n.d. Web. 06 Mar. 2014. . Sherrow, Victoria. Life in a Medieval Monastery. San Diego, CA: Lucent, 2001. Print. Stevens, Holly. "Art History 1." Art History 1303. TAMU-C, Commerce. Mar. 2013. lecture. Stokstad, Marilyn. Art: A Brief History. Upper

  • Joan of Arc's Effect on the Hundred Years' War

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    Press, 2000. “Joan of Arc-Maid of Orleans.” h2g2. Accessed February 22, 2014. news.bbc.co.uk/dna/place-lancashire/plain/A403543. Kudlinski, Kathleen. Joan of Arc. London: DK Publishing, 2008. Lace, William W. The Hundred Years’ War. San Diego, CA: Lucent Books, 1994. Nardo, Don. France. New York: Children’s Press, 2008. Petit de Julleville, Louis. Joan of Arc. Hartford, Connecticut: Victory Book Campaign, 1942. Sookram, Brian. France. Philadelphia: Chelsea House Publishers, 1999. Sullivan, Winnifred

  • Human Cloning Should It Be Justified

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    Ever since the first cloned mammal, Dolly The Sheep, was created in 1996, the concept of human cloning started to arise (Nardo, 2002). Cloning is a mean of asexual reproduction, which will create a genetically identical organism by copying the DNA of a cell or an individual. By simpler mean, a clone is a duplicate or a copy (Yadav & Sharma, 2011). It is said that human cloning could bring variety of benefits to people including bringing back the deceased, and helping infertile couples. However, human