Philip Brown Accounting Founding Dean 1970-1975

When taking pictures of printed materials for future optical scanning, the environment is very important.  In certain cases you will be severely limited in your choice of photographing conditions. Some archives do not allow you to remove the printed materials from their property and the space provided may be cramped with no natural light.  One solution for overcoming these issues is to use a custom camera holder by taping a mini camera tripod to the base of a flexible lamp base.  This allows you to clip the device wherever you are working and gives you the flexibility to adjust the camera angle for the best pictures. As opposed to picking up the camera and refocusing after turning every page, this set up allows you to forgo that motion, which takes less effort and shaves a few seconds off the time to take each picture. 

Also, rather than clasping the books open with other books or using a book sleeve, you can also use a flat piece of transparent plexiglass and hold it over the photographed page while taking the pictures.  The plexiglass keeps the photographed pages flat and in most cases keeps the pages from the opposite side of the book from falling over into the picture.  When the pages of the book are significantly unbalanced (e.g. at the beginning or end of the book), you may have to hold the plexiglass down with one hand while take the picture with the other.  Although crude, this set up is functionally the same as the devices used by libraries to do digitization.

Some things to note:
1. The plastic used cannot be too thick or else the text in the pictures will be blurry. 
2. You have to locate yourself away from any overhead lighting which will reflect off the plastic and create significant glare issues with your pictures.

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Table of Contents

• Overview
• Early Childhood
• School Years
  • Primary School
  • Secondary School
• 2006
• 2009
• External Links

Overview

Mia Feasey is presently the CEO of the Siren Design Group.

Early Childhood

School Years

Primary School

Secondary School

2006

Starts Siren Design in Sydney…

2009

Expands Siren to Brisbane and Melbourne.

External Links

Siren Design Group’s Web Site

Table of Contents

• Overview
• Content of the firm’s business conception
• Firm growth
• Firm crisis/ growth threshold
• Organizational structure
• Structural change
• Motivation, incentive structure, human resource management practices, corporate culture
• External Links

Overview

Siren Design was founded in 2006 by Mia Feasey. The interior design firm expanded from Sydney to Melbourne and Brisbane…

Content of the firm’s business conception

• Product/service idea
• Innovativeness of the product/service idea
• Markets intended to serve
• Intended market share
• Intended firm size/growth
• Intended form of coordination
• Resources, capabilities, know-how

Firm growth

• Growth in number of employees
• Growth in number of sales
• Growth in number of assets

Firm crisis/ growth threshold

• Performance data (e.g., stagnating and declining growth rates, returns, turnovers)

Organizational structure

• Number of hierarchies
• Degree of responsibility delegation
• Ownership and/or management composition
• Number of divisions
• Formalization of reporting lines

Structural change

• Change in the number of hierarchies
• Change in the degree of responsibility delegation
• Change in the ownership and/or management composition
• Change of the number of divisions (investment or divestment)
• Change of the formalization of reporting lines
• Merger and acquisition activities

Motivation, incentive structure, human resource management practices, corporate culture

• Intensity of communication between the entrepreneurs/management and the firm members
• Intensity of communication among the top management
• Intensity of communication and interactions within divisions
• Intensity of communication and interaction across divisions
• Number of divisional meetings
• Number of cross-divisional meetings
• Extent of shared decision-making
• Intensity of control
• Financial intensive schemes
• Encouragement vs. financial incentives for coming up with ideas for technological and organizational improvement
• Cross-divisional exchange of employees
• Training
• Career tracks
• Social events

External Links

Siren Design Group’s Web Site

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