Future of Google
He guyz I found a senarioplanning for google I found it at U-lip title: Google is the media. Source: Business 2.0; Jan/Feb 2006, Vol.7 Issue 1, p81-81,1/2p Scenario1 (circa 2025) //if you want a hard copy I got one. Greetings,
Simon
here is the link: [http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2006/01/01/8368125/ 4 scenarios on google's future]
-Daniel
Company Profile
Google Inc. is a U.S. public corporation, first incorporated as a privately held corporation in September, 1998, that designs and manages the Internet Google search engine. A company that started out in a garage, quickly started out conquering the world with its comprehensive and innovative way of thinking.
Group Profile
Remigius Barendse
Matt Stolwijk
Ning Xu
Asli Cavusoglu
Paul Nguyen
Research Questions
- How did the idea for Google came up?
- How did Google start with finance?
- How does Google gain revenue?
- How does Google handles privacy issues?
- Is Google a stabile company at the moment?
- What is Google’s core business?
- What are Google' s additional businesses?
- How many hits does Google generate a day?
- Where are they operating in the world?
- Who are Google' s competitors (Core Business and General)?
- What are the sizes of Google' s competitors (Current)?
- How many employees does Google have?
- What are the strongly related businesses with Google where they are NOT active in yet?
- What is Google' s business strategy?
- Is Google a centralized or decentralized company?
- Is Google dependent on other companies and/or partnerships?
- Why is Google involved in so many ‘markets segments’?
- How is the working environment within Google?
- Why does Google adept to the Chinese government?
- What is Google's financial situation?
- What new technology has been developed by Google?
- Was Google involved in any take overs?
Driving Forces
- Google's adaption to the Great Firewall of China
- Google's technological innovation and R&D
- Google's storage capacity and sheer processing power
- Open source technology behind Google's power
Individual driving forces group members:
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Interesting driving forces:
http://scenariothinking.org/wiki/index.php/Cost_of_Computer_Resources