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Advantage 2000 at Owens Coring

            
             Owens Corning was established 1935 by joint venture of Corning Glass and .
             Now it is international company with headquarter in Toledo, .
             Ohio. In 1996 it had 11 business units, 17,000 employees in 30 countries, 45% .
             market share in the compositions materials market. In January 1992 company got .
             new CEO . Company before that was in the huge dept. New CEO, Hiner infused his .
             management team with outside talent. Under new management team, Owens Corning .
             begun to progress. By early 1994, CEO Hiner had established ambitious financial, .
             business and workplace plan. In order to obtain that goals three business process .
             reengineering (BPR) projects were initiated by Hiner:.
             Reengineering logistics.
             Reengineering customer service processes.
             Consolidating the finance function.
             Company hired consulting firm D&T to work with BPR teams. They concluded that .
             existing IS would not be able to support the envisioned new processes. Existing IS .
             was design to support separate business and single functions. IS was decentralized.
             Company hired new CIO, Radcliff as help to move company to next century by .
             strategically aligning the IS organization to the ambitious vision for year 2000 .
             and to significantly cut IS operational costs worldwide. Company decided to get ERP .
             system which is able to do following:.
             Access worldwide.
             Customize response to meet customer needs.
             Make fully informed decisions.
             Communicate paper-free.
             Company decided to buy SAP R/3 version of ERP systems. Implementation of SAP .
             R/3 system is supposed to be done in the four different fazes:.
             R1 targeted a single corporate function financing.
             R2 targeted a full set of manufacturing and distributing modules.
             R3 would implement standard client/server configuration.
             R4 would exploit in multinational environment.
             To be able to manage release of SAP R/3 OC needed IS organized differently then .
             it was before. Company reorganized IS. New IS had three structures linked with .


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1. Wilfred Owen

Wilfred Owen was a poet who wrote poetry on the horrors of World War 1. ... Wilfred Owen wrote the "Send-Off" in 1918. ... Owen uses these images to show that the soldier's days are numbered. ... All of Owens poems appeal to our senses, especially "Dulce Et Decorum Est." ... He uses these techniques to his advantage to show the reader; the horrors, pain and suffering, slaughter, deaths, fear, and uncertainty that the soldiers and he experienced. ...

  • Word Count: 1021
  • Approx Pages: 4
  • Grade Level: High School

2. A Prayer For Owen Meany-Symbol

At least not to Owen. Owen just knew that this was the work of God. ... During Johnny and Owen's high school years at Gravesend Academy, Owen wrote a column for the school newspaper, The Grave. Owen's editorial name ironically was The Voice. ... Throughout the novel, Johnny and Owen refer back to Watahantowet, and in many ways Owen was just like him; Owen was handicapped by his voice, size and his inability to communicate. ...

  • Word Count: 750
  • Approx Pages: 3
  • Grade Level: High School

3. Evaluation of Owens poetry

Owen ingeniously censures Pope's poems and the overall war effort in the final line of Dulce with the line "you would not tell The old Lie" Owen brings across many other feelings in Dulce et Decorum est. ... which adds atmosphere and makes the reader think more about the point Owen is making. ... This religious imagery is carried through into other poems composed by Owen. ... This is a way for Owen to show how ridiculous he thought the war was. ... Owen's best poems were written between August 1917 and September 1918. ...

  • Word Count: 1397
  • Approx Pages: 6
  • Grade Level: Undergraduate

4. A Prayer for Owen Meany

In John Irving's novel, A Prayer for Owen Meany, Irving illustrates the idea of friendship through the characters of Owen and Johnny, which is developed throughout various chapters. ... In Owen's foretelling reverie, Owen envisioned a helpless Johnny as a result of Owen's death, and discovered a resolution to the dilemma. ... When Tabitha Wheelwright, Johnny's flawless mother, suffered a deadly blow from a baseball struck by Owen, there transpired an exchanging of gifts between Owen and Johnny. ... Owen gave Johnny his most prized possessions, his baseball cards, and Jo...

  • Word Count: 371
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5. Michael Owen

I picked Michael Owen because he has lots of qualities that inspire me. ... Michael Owen is very courageous. ... A quality that I also admire in Michael Owen is that he is very intelligent. ... A major quality of Michael Owen that inspires me is his good sportsmanship. ... Some people just let things happen, Michael Owen makes things happen. ...

  • Word Count: 471
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6. Owen Meany

Owen has saved Johnny. ... During Owen's life Johnny was always a little skeptical of Owen's claims that he knows how he will die and all of the other prophetic visions that Owen mentions to Johnny. ... Johnny then realized that Owen's existence was no accident and begins to view Owen's life as proof of God's existence. Owen has become a personal Jesus Christ for Johnny and all Johnny's questions about God's existence have been answered through Owen. ... Owen Meany does not believe in coincidence but that God dictates all events on the earth, so it is obvi...

  • Word Count: 535
  • Approx Pages: 2
  • Grade Level: High School

7. Owen meany

Johnny, the stronger of the two, hoisted Owen up to dunk the ball, whereas Owen was lifted because he was the smaller of the two. ... Owen Meany is a person who is unbelievably complex. ... This suggests that Owen sees himself as the second Christ. ... Owen later has a dream that gruesomely depicts his death. ... Owen Meany is a man that is very intelligent, but very confused. ...

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8. Wilfred Owen

The poem "Futility", the heading says it all for Wilfred Owen, World War 1 was pointless, useless. ... Wilfred Owen use of half rhymes in this poem gives us the feeling of senselessness. ... From early youth Wilfred Owen wrote poetry, much of it at first was inspired by religion. In 1915 Wilfred Owen made a difficult decision to enlist in the army and fight in World War 1. ... In the hospital he met Siegfried Sassoon, a poet whose grim antiwar works were in harmony with Owens concerns. ...

  • Word Count: 983
  • Approx Pages: 4
  • Grade Level: High School

9. Wilfred Owen and The Modernism

The poem shows Owen's individualism through his subversion of popular' imagery (that of the Romantics) to reveal the truth about war. ... Owen's imagery in the poem, is also modernistic because it seems personal. ... Exposure' is also an example of Owen's experiment with rhyming schemes and sounds. ... Owen continues to use the modernist technique of ambiguous writing in the second stanza of the poem when he poses the question: What are we doing here?' ... This is obviously due to the influence of Romanticism on a pre-war' Owen. ...

  • Word Count: 2437
  • Approx Pages: 10
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  • Grade Level: High School

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