You've heard people talking about their business ideas
(from Listening Log 4),
but you do know very well that there are always OBSTACLES in running a business.
That's why we've been discussing so many current PROBLEMS and even potential ones that are somehow holding back some of the big, international brands (such as Apple, Amazon and Google), as well as some local business organizations (like CPBL)
For the 3rd blogging task,
please think back on the previous discussion,
focus on only ONE of the following 1) to 8) and ONE of its current major problems.
1) Amazon 2) Apple 3) CPBL 4) Google
5) IKEA 6) McDonald's 7) Microsoft 8) Taipei Metro
(Feel free to refer back to their presentation PPTs for more ideas!)
In your post,
briefly talk about the PROBLEM in one short paragraph! (There will be a 30-minute time limit! From 9:10 to 9:40!)
Some of the key words/phrases below will help you better express yourself!
(You'll earn bonus points if you use any of the word/phrases below in the post!)
After you make your one-paragraph post HERE,
please go back to the WORD evaluation sheet
(downloadable from FTP or e-Campus)
and complete the other requirements! - Amazon (e-commerce, centric, virtual, presence, promote, risky, acquisition, essential, retail, evaporate, barrier, wireless, maintenance, expectations, worldwide, piorneer, virtually, investment, digital, copyright)
- Apple (Steve Jobs, Macintosh, Power Book, Apple Lisa, iPod, iPhone, iPhone 3G, iPad, retail stores, online store, AIM alliance, build-to-order, PVC, BFR, CFO, CEO, R&D, graphical user interface, EGOist, concealment, touch screen)
- CPBL (unprecedented, reluctant, bookmakers, fraud, indictment, playoff, glamour, ailing, verbiage, perennial, gearing up, phenomenon, exclusively, roster, epithet, intermediary, syndicate, eradicate, unveil, mob)
- Google (originate, misspelling, cloud computing, interface, algorithm, malicious, spammer, dummy, portal, browser, sophisticated, breach, phishing, malware, restriction, unwitting, elaborate, censor, advocate, manipulate)
- IKEA (expand, sustainability, wow, recognition, flat pack, dwindle, red tape, sustantial, minimize, rampant, breakthrough, commodity, pervasive, timber, bureaucracy, e-commerce, thwart, mapping, corruption, mass market pricing)
- McDonald's (counter service, drive-through, fast-food culture, financial base, arsenic, craving, county, epidemic, globalization, irrelevant, laden, light food, obesity, saturation, spiral, unhealthy)
- Microsoft (assert, announce, CES, compatibility, certification, device, dominate, economy, FUD, interpreter, leverage, litigation, manufacture, monopoly, plenty, red tape, replicate, revenue, technology, unemployment)
- Taipei Metro (safeguard, freight, cyclists, interchange, explicit, MRT, cordial, philosophy, executive, metropolitan, IC EasyCard, elevated)
NOTE: You should get this task done and hand it in through FTP in class!
