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Margaret Mountford Margaret Mountford is a non-Executive Director of Amstrad plc and one of the jury in every episode of the game-show known as The Apprentice. She was appointed to the Board on 22 September 1999. She has many years’ corporate law experience as a partner in the law firm, Herbert Smith, from which she retired in March 1999. She is also a non-Executive Director at Georgica Plc
Mountford used to be a solicitor in a private practice. She was a partner at Herbert Smith, a top-tier company, and it was whilst there that she met Sir Alan - she was doing his legal work for Amstrad's flotation on the Stock Exchange. She retired in 1999 and took up her current role on the Amstrad board as a non-executive Director.
In the July 2004 White Paper, 'The Future of Transport', the UK Secretary of State announced the creation of the Transport Innovation Fund' (TIF). The Fund would support:
- the costs of smarter, innovative local transport packages that combine demand management measures, such as road pricing, with measures to encourage modal shift, and better bus services;
- local mechanisms which raise new funding for transport schemes; and
- regional, inter-regional and local schemes that are beneficial to national productivity.
Initial information on TIF was set out in the paper "Transport Innovation Fund" 2 in July 2005. This document provided guidance on the operation of the Fund and explained how the Government would
- (a) seek proposals for packages and schemes aimed at tackling congestion through demand management and better public transport ("congestion schemes"), and
- (b) identify schemes which meet productivity objectives.
For both categories (a) and (b), priority would be given to those proposals which are most effective in securing a financial contribution from significant beneficiaries.
The globally integrated enterprise is a term coined in 2006 in the name of Sam Palmisano, CEO of IBM Corp, used to denote is a company that fashions its strategy, its management, and its operations in pursuit of a new goal: the integration of production and value delivery worldwide. State borders define less and less the boundaries of corporate thinking or practice.
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[edit] The Argument
Palmisano argues that in the international model of the 19th century, most operations were centred in the home country, with only elements of sales and distribution happening overseas. The multinational model of the 20th century—in which companies created small versions of themselves in each country—was a response to the trade barriers that arose after the World Wars. For IBM, this was a very successful model, because it enabled the company to grow in those markets, understand local customer requirements and cultivate local talent. But it also created a lot of redundancy because each country had its own back-office functions (e.g. supply, procurement, finance and HR).
Now the globally integrated enterprise can locate functions anywhere in the world, based on the right cost, skills and environment. (IBM now has one supply chain, for example.) This new organisational form has emerged because everything is connected, and work can move to the place where it is done best. The barriers that used to block the flow of work, capital and ideas are weakening.
Palmisano mentions the Law of Global Integration, driven by three forces—economics, expertise and openness—without explicitly stating what it is or how it can be verified.
[edit] Criticisms
Brad Setser of RGE Monitor wrote:
- 'In my view, this underscores a key element of tension in America’s current backlash against globalization that was not evident in the late 1980s. Today, the pressures are being borne disproportionately by labor, whereas 20 years ago, capital and labor were in the struggle together. In the late 1980s, many of the once proud icons of Corporate America were fighting for competitive survival at the same time that US workers were feeling the heat of global competition. The pain was, in effect, balanced. Today, US companies, as seen through the lens of corporate profitability, are thriving as never before while the American workforce is increasingly isolated in its competitive squeeze. In essence, capital and labor are working very much at cross purposes in the current climate, whereas back in the late 1980s they were both in the same boat.'
Others dislike the implied 'feudalism':
- 'My reading of the article is little more than a self-congratulatory positioning of the "modern" corporation as a middleman managing customer relationships on the one side and globally supplied commodity services on the other, and passing this off as a principal mode of "creating value". Of course the things enabling this role are protection of "intellectual property", and "global security" (globally harmonized legislation and enforcement of your rights and your subjects' obligations). There is indeed a bit of a feudalist whiff to it. There was one statement towards the end catching my attention—"A third challenge will be to figure out how to maintain trust in enterprises based on increasingly distributed business models." I say, good luck, Mr. Palmisano.'
[edit] See also
[edit] Sources
- Samuel J. Palmisano. The Globally Integrated Enterprise. (Foreign Affairs, May/June 2006) [1]
- Criticisms of the paper on Economist's View blog
Thegn 13:40, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
Goltho is a village of Anglo-Saxon roots situated in Lincolnshire. The origin of the name is uncertain, perhaps from an Old Scandanavian (Viking) first name or the Viking word for "ravine".
It is a parish about ten miles northeast of Lincoln and two miles southwest of Wragby. Wragby parish lies to the east, Rand parish to the north and Apley parish to the south. It is described in White's 1842 Lincolnshire Directory as 'a parish of scattered farms'. The parish covered about 1,360 acres in 1842. Ecclesiastically, the parish was united with Bullington to form one tithe-free parish in the peculiar jurisdiction of the Bishop of Lincoln. Together, the two parishes covered about 2,540 acres. The parish is skirted on the north side by the A158 trunk road as it passes between Lincoln and Horncastle.
The Anglican Church, dedicated to St. George, is more properly called a chapel. It is a small red brick building. By 1900, the church had been converted to use only as a mortuary chapel.
Goltho Hall, torn down long before 1842, was the ancestral seat of the Grantham family, who sold the estate to the Mainwaring family. It was rebuilt around 1875, near the site of the old hall.
Goltho contains a medieval village settlement consisting of a moat, and crofts with buildings, seen as cropmarks and earthworks. Excavation in 1973 revealed an early medieval ringwork and medieval motte and tower. This is a site than has undergone a rare extensive and detailed excavation and was found to have had a complex history. This started as a Saxon defended manorial site and had the earthworks modified on several occasions (and timber buildings rebuilt) including use as a Norman castle.
For governance, the parish was in the ancient Wraggoe Wapentake in the West Lindsey district and parts of Lindsey.
[edit] References
- Everson, P.,1990 'The problem of Goltho' Medieval Settlement Research Group Report Vol5 p9-14
- Stocker, D., 1989, 'Review of G. Beresford, 'Goltho: The Development of of an Early Medieval Manor c. 850-1150 Archaeological Journal Vol14 p627-9
- Everson, P.,1988, ‘What’s in a name? “Goltho”, Goltho and Bullington' Lincolnshire History and Archaeology Vol23 p93–9
- Hodges, R., 1988, ‘Origins of the English castle' Nature Vol333 p112–13
- Beresford, Guy, 1982, 'Goltho Manor, Lincolnshire: The Buildings and their Surrounding Defences c.850-1150' in Brown, R.Allen (ed), Proceedings of the Battle Conference on Anglo-Norman Studies 4, 1981 (Boydell Press) p13-36, 171-4
- Beresford, Guy, 1977, ‘The excavation of the deserted medieval village of Goltho, Lincolnshire' Château Gaillard Vol8 p47-68 plates 1 and 4
- Selkirk, A., 1975-6, ‘Goltho, a deserted medieval village and its manor house' Current Archaeology Vol5 p262-70
- Salter, Mike, 2002, The Castles of the East Midlands (Malvern) p50
- Roffe, David, 1993, 'Castles' in Bennett, S. and Bennett, N. (eds), An Historical Atlas of Lincolnshire (University of Hull Press) p40-1
- Higham, R. and Barker, P., 1992, Timber Castles (Batsford) p281-6
- Beresford, G. et al, 1987, Goltho: the development of an early medieval manor c 850–1150. (London: English Heritage)
- Bassett, S.R., 1985, 'Beyond the edge of excavation: the topographical context of Goltho' in Mayr-Harting, H. and Moore, R.I. (eds), Studies in Medieval History Presented to R.H.C. Davis (London: Hambledon) p21-39
- King, D.J.C., 1983, Castellarium Anglicanum (London: Kraus) Vol1 p265
- Beresford, G., 1975, The Medieval Clay-Land Village: Excavations at Goltho and Barton Blount (London: Society for Medieval Archaeology Monograph 6)
