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lurongyang replied to the topic "Marketing Strategy" – 5 years, 10 months ago
I think one of the most important reasons why these companies never put ads on television is that they occupy the most of the market share in that area, almost monopolized in its most cutting-edge technology development that not many… Read more»
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lurongyang replied to the topic "Family Businesses" – 5 years, 10 months ago
Sole proprietorship cannot shift its owner according to the law, the business will die with the owner. One way to do this is change the category to a Limited Liability Partnership which allows limited members to hold the company’s share…. Read more»
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lurongyang replied to the topic "Accepting job based on company." – 5 years, 10 months ago
In this course, companies including Limited Liability Company vs Corporation vs Sole Proprietorship vs partnership are classified based on the way of operating business, how many people own the business, and how the company relates to the owners. It’s all… Read more»
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lurongyang replied to the topic "S-Corp vs C-Corp" – 5 years, 10 months ago
S-corps, in my opinion, are those companies who only allows a few members to have a say in running business, the corporate cannot be publicly traded and have thousands of stakeholders like C-corps, but could only be taxed once, which… Read more»
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lurongyang replied to the topic "R&D vs Quality" – 5 years, 10 months ago
I think there should be a intermediator who can talk between and has fair amount of the knowledge on both side to help them agree to a somehow acceptable level. That being said, everyone needs to compromise for whatever the… Read more»
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lurongyang replied to the topic "Discussion Topic: The cost of Quality" – 5 years, 10 months ago
Quality control is not only a matter of saving money, actually. I think it will bring much more profitable good to the company if they did great job on quality control. First, quality control is defined with the acceptance criteria… Read more»
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lurongyang replied to the topic "Relation of Quality with other department." – 5 years, 10 months ago
As mentioned in the lecture, the ways we can do for effectively monitoring product quality and collaboration between different departments is to simply make strict principles and rules to comply with. In a big company, there are a lot of… Read more»
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lurongyang replied to the topic "Discussion Topic: Beyond experimental design issues" – 5 years, 10 months ago
I think this is the exact pitfall where a project manager cannot control the schedule, performance and a lot of details about the animal study. Most important one of them is the requirement of the animal that is appropriate for… Read more»
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lurongyang replied to the topic "Animals Used in Animal Testing" – 5 years, 10 months ago
In my opinion, it is not humanitarian at all to take any animal experiment. Since their lives will get hurt and killed anyway when it comes to the pre-clinical research and people just wanna get rid of the germs,toxins or… Read more»
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lurongyang replied to the topic "Research for the Fututre or Now?" – 5 years, 10 months ago
I always think research for the future in academia is more important since the outcome would be openly seen by the public and it’s always good for the further development of the technology, not always about the money. Sometimes money… Read more»
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lurongyang replied to the topic "Thoughts on BME degree, "a little of everything"" – 5 years, 10 months ago
Diverse major like BME is less known and demanded than computer science and mechanical engineering for sure. But that doesn’t mean we should only focus on the downside of its diverse nature. Instead, I think BME is significantly useful in… Read more»
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lurongyang replied to the topic "Discussion Topic: Academia vs. Industry" – 5 years, 10 months ago
For my experience, I will start with that in academia because that defines basically all of my past work experience. As you may get to know me in the post of my self-introduction. I used to work as an intern… Read more»
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lurongyang replied to the topic "Discussion Topic: Practical vs. Informational courses" – 5 years, 10 months ago
I think in reality they are both important. 70:30 seems a fair proportion for me in terms of studying both academic skills enough for basically knowing where I am in the overall knowledge network of the BME-related subjects and practical… Read more»
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lurongyang replied to the topic NDA vs Patents in the forum Consultants and Legal Basics 6 years, 4 months ago
Even though Non-Disclosure Agreement could have a perpetual time limit and should be theoretically protective to the commercial secrets between the two parties or within the company or institute. However, this is not powerful as a patent since it is not protected by the official government and thus, cannot protect your secret, for example, a…[Read more]
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lurongyang replied to the topic Restrictions for physician's gifts in the forum Consultants and Legal Basics 6 years, 4 months ago
I think most of these regulations mentioned regarding gift giving to physician are reasonable. The first topic I do feel a little bit rigid because it is not consistent with basic courtesy, which in normal situation, people would at least buy their friend a meal along with his/her family. However, this meal is also purposeful because it’s interest…[Read more]
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lurongyang replied to the topic Written Agreement v/s Verbal Agreement in the forum Consultants and Legal Basics 6 years, 4 months ago
I think there are some significant differences between Verbal Agreement & Oral Agreement. Let’s firstly suppose we take the form of verbal agreement, then we need to consider how the two parties should make the verbal statement on agreement in an official way. This is not easy since many issues including whether the recordings are allowed by the…[Read more]
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lurongyang replied to the topic Discussion Topic: Your organizational type in the forum Organizational Development in Device Companies 6 years, 4 months ago
Even though I haven’t involved in any types of organizations mentioned in this week’s course, I have a preference to choose project-based organization as my ideal type of company to work for in the future. Here are my reasons. First of all, the work environment would be more agreeable since everyone don’t have to put more energy on the possible…[Read more]
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lurongyang replied to the topic Forming a Project Team in the forum Organizational Development in Device Companies 6 years, 4 months ago
In terms of forming a project team, I think it’s important to always find people who are qualified enough to participate their roles in the project, and meanwhile, have a good sense of collaboration and moderate subordination. It’s always all about finding the balance over these two qualities from a competent before recruiting one in the team.…[Read more]
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lurongyang replied to the topic Project Management Preferences in the forum Organizational Development in Device Companies 6 years, 4 months ago
To start with the question: would it be more challenging to work as a project manager in either Matrix or Project-based organization? I think it will be so, based on more documents needed to practice the project management. For example, aside from Project Management Plan; Risk Management Plan, there are also Preliminary Gantt Chart, WBS, Network…[Read more]
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lurongyang replied to the topic Risk Identification in the forum Risk Analysis for Medical Devices 6 years, 4 months ago
To identify and prioritize the risks for a project, you need to start with looking up in the design history files for other similar projects for reference. This will cost less time when you hold meetings to have every member brainstorm the risks within their job duties. However, more effort still needs to be put on the risks related to highly…[Read more]
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