life cycle

Examples of life cycle in the following topics:

• Life Cycle of Small Business

• Considering the Organizational Life Cycle

  • The life cycle of an organization is important to consider when determining its overall design and structure.
  • The Enterprise Life Cycle is a model that underlines the way in which organizations remain relevant.
  • Daft theorized four stages of the organizational life cycle, each with critical transitions:
  • The Enterprise Life Cycle comes strongly into play in the elaboration stage.
  • Describe the way in which life cycles influence an organization's overall design and structure

• The Technology Life Cycle

  • The technology life cycle describes the costs and profits of a product from technological development to market maturity to decline.
  • The technology life cycle (TLC) describes the costs and profits of a product from technological development phase to market maturity to eventual decline.
  • Due to rapidly increasing rates of innovation, products such as electronics and pharmaceuticals in particular are vulnerable to shorter life cycles (when considered against such benchmarks as steel or paper).
  • Taking these two models into consideration, a business unit with a new product or service must consider the scale of investment in R&D, the projected life cycle the technology will likely maintain, and the way in which customers will adopt this product.
  • Categorize the four distinct stages in the technology life cycle and apply the five demographic consumer groups in the context of these stages

• Bureaucratic Control

  • The quality control cycle improves processes through a continuous cycle of planning, doing, checking, and acting.
  • The quality control life cycle is an ongoing cycle of planning, monitoring, assessing, comparing, correcting, and improving products or processes.
  • It is also known as the Deming circle/cycle/wheel, Shewhart cycle, control circle/cycle, or plan–do–study–act (PDSA).
  • Another version of this PDCA cycle is OPDCA.
  • Use the four central components of the quality control cycle as a quality control (QC) tool

• Types of Social Responsibility: Ecocentric Management

  • For example, they may incorporate life-cycle assessment, a technique aimed at assessing the environmental impacts associated with all the stages of a product's life, from raw material extraction through materials processing, manufacture, distribution, use, repair and maintenance, and disposal or recycling.

• TQM

  • Total: TQM involves the entire organization, supply chain, and/or product life cycle.

• Assessing an Organization's Technological Needs

  • As successive groups of consumers adopt new technology a bell curve emerges - this is referred to as the innovation adoption life cycle (the blue bell curve on the above graphic).

• Technology as a Driver and Enabler of Innovation

  • Product life cycles shows how economic returns go through a steep exponential growth phase and an eventual evening out, which motivates businesses to leverage technology to produce new innovations.

• The Mission of Human Resource Management

  • On an individual level, HR's mission is to manage the employee experience during the employment life cycle.

• Speed of Innovation

  • A high rate of change can be seen in the shortening of product life cycles, increased technological change, increased speed of innovation, and increased speed of diffusion of innovations.