...QUESTIONS FOR CASE STUDY ASSIGNMENT STRATEGIC EXCELLENCE Licensed for use by the students of the Executive MBA Program, The Icfai University. Not to be reproduced. QUESTIONS FOR CASE STUDY ASSIGNMENT STRATEGIC EXCELLENCE ANSWER THE QUESTIONS FOR ANY TEN CASE STUDIES Questions for 18 case studies are given below. Each case study assignment has 2 questions. Students are required to answer questions for any 10 case studies (20 answers). Students are advised to submit answers for all 10 cases in one go, for results to be adjudged in one instance. 01. McDonald’s in the United Kingdom a. When McDonald’s entered the UK market in 1974, it initially failed to attract British customers and reported losses. However, as of 2009, the UK was one of the most promising markets for McDonald’s. Many factors were responsible for this change in situation. First, identify the subset of factors that could be attributed to the organization’s strategies. Next, tabulate that subset of factors along with the associated strategies for each factor. Finally, classify these strategies into originally intended and subsequently emergent strategies. b. As of 2009, McDonald’s faced many challenges in the UK. In your opinion, what strategies should McDonald’s adopt at the corporate, business, and functional levels to continue its growth trend in the UK? Give reasons for your answer. 02. Emerging Markets Strategy: Nokia Life Tools for Rural Markets a. Business strategy is often compared...
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...[pic] Assignment Submission Form Page 1 Course Name: Competitive Strategy, Term 2, 2009-2010 Assignment Title: Competitive Strategy, Term 2, 2009-2010 Submitted by: Section B; Group B13 (Student name or group name) The ISB Honour Code • I will represent myself in a truthful manner • I will not fabricate or plagiarize any information with regard to curriculum • I will not seek, receive, or obtain an unfair advantage over other students • I will personally uphold and abide, in theory and practice, the values, purpose, and rules of the ISB Honour Code • I will report all significant violations of the ISB Honour Code by members of the ISB community • I will respect the rights and property of all in the ISB community I certify that I have adhered to the Honour Code of the ISB in completing this assignment. Signature Date: 19th July 2009 PTO Indian School of Business Assignment Submission Form Page 2 Group Submission Group Name: Section B; Group B13 Group Member 1: Hardik Vijay Jhaveri Student ID: 61010438 Group Member 2: Jay Shah Student ID: 61010117 Group Member 3: Prashant Ram Student ID: 61010216 Group Member 4: Priyom Sarkar Student ID: 61010134 Group Member 5: Suyog Kalyanji Kotecha Student ID: 61010319 To be filled by Evaluator Only: Score Obtained:...
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...Assignment On Small Business Financial Survey Course Name: Strategic Marketing Course no. EMB620 (Sec-01) Course instructor: Kazi Islam Prepared by- K.M.Yeer Hossain Date: 19th November, 2009 NSU, Dhaka 1. How relevant you found today's guest and discussion topics in relation to our class? Guest lecture is fully relevant to our like class. According to guest statement after analyzing market segments, customer interests, and the purchase process, it's time to create the strategic marketing plan. The strategic marketing plan document usually includes: Situational Analysis - Where is the company now? a. Market Characteristics [Low fixed line penetration due to lack of adequate Telecom Infrastructure] b. Key Success Factors[Network coverage and Quality, Products, Value Added Services, Innovation, Corporate Social Responsibilities, Distribution and reach] c. Competition and Product Comparisons[key Competitor’s experience, staying power, market position, strength, predictability and promotion activity] d. Technology Considerations[Technology Insight, GSM, GPRS, EDGE] e. Legal Environment [Government and BTRC Rules and Regulation] f. Social Environment [Village Based] g. Problems and Opportunities[Unmet demand, Declining prices of handsets and SIM cards] Marketing Objectives - Where does management want the company to go? a. Product Profile [Prepaid, Post Paid, Djuice, Xplore] b. Target Market [target people...
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... Dear Sir, It gives us an immense pleasure in submitting to you the term paper Consumer perception of e-advertising about “Airtel Bangladesh Ltd.” Which is the topic under our observation? While preparing the report, we closely focused on the topic & tried to collect most complete information available. We believe that it will provide you a clear scenario of e-advertising about the company. We thank you for giving us the opportunity to do a report on the above mention point. This term paper will definitely give us experience which we can be used in our professional life. We will be always available for any further query and to answer any questions on this paper. Thank you Truly yours Group- Scanner, Course- MKT201; Section- 01 Hasnat Jahan Nira _______________________________ Md. Abul Kalam _________________________________ Md. Abu Bakar Siddique Bhuiyan __________________________ ACKNOWLEDGEMENT At first we express our deep sense of gratitude to almighty ALLAH for His infinite grace that allowed us to complete this assignment successfully. We sincerely express our thanks to our honorable course teacher MAHMUD ZOBAYER, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION, EAST WEST UNIVERSITY; for giving us the task to prepare this term...
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...tea. This involves not only the packing of tea but also blending of other varieties to maintain consistency of taste. To arrive at a blend, expert tea tasters sample hundreds of liquors. Convenient drinks like instant tea (soluble tea powder), tea bags (bags are dipped in hot water), ready to drink (served in cans) and flavored tea (with vanilla, strawberry flavor) are becoming popular in developed countries like the USA and Japan. So we bring our new product “Tea Garden”: The ultimate readymade milk tea in the Bangladeshi market. But this product is quite different from other. Every one offer this kind of product in a powdered form which need to boil in water for 2-3 minutes and then filter it to drink but this is time consuming, other company provide tea bag of raw tea and other market this as a form of cans. But we bring this product in a tea bag with separated chamber for each item that is sugar, milk and tea leaves. This product is completely new in Bangladeshi market. We are going to introduce this product with the slogan “Refreshing Bangladesh”. And we are here to refresh the Bangladesh again with a strong sprite. 1.1 Product Preview This product is produced under the brand name “Tea Garden”. This product is available in a box which contains 30 tea bags. It is also available in mini packages that contain 5 tea bags. This product is also available in Standard and Gold category. Ingredients 1) Filter Paper 2) Quality Tea Leave 3) Refined powder milk ...
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...Business Management , Individual Assignment 1 C.P.U.T. Short Course in Supply Chain Management 3/19/2015 George Wilson | Table of contents | Index Number | Table of content | 1 | Objective | 2 | Overview | 3 | Vodacom’s Vision and Values | 4 | SWOT Analysis based on Vodacom | 5 | Resource allocation in Vodacom | 9 | Leadership in Vodacom | 10 | Controls | 11 | Conclusion | 12 | Glossary | 13 | Objective This assignment focuses on the practical application of management theory to a work environment and organisation. Focus will be on: * Strategic Planning * Organising * Leadership * Controls Vodacom Group LTD will be focussed on in the assignment. Overview & Introduction Vodacom is a leading African mobile communications company providing a wide range of services including mobile voice, messaging, data and converged services to more than 60 million customers. The Vodacom brand was born in 1993, when few people had yet heard of cell phones, kicking-off with clarity of vision that it continues to sustain. From their roots in South Africa, they’ve grown their mobile operations to include networks in Tanzania, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Mozambique, and Lesotho. Vodacom has more than 7000 employees. Vodacom also offer business managed services to enterprises in various countries across Africa. Vodacom is majority owned by Vodafone, one of the world’s...
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...understanding in the easiest way. Thank you. It is pleasure to acknowledge the assistance received form several individuals during the preparation of this term paper. We are greatly indebted to our Miss Samina Hoque for her valuable help by giving the direction. We are appreciating the enthusiastic help of websites and annual report of the company in preparation of the term paper. We are obliged to Al-amin who contributes much to complete the term paper. Executive Summary: Grameenphone is one of the most go-ahead industries currently in Bangladesh. We took the term paper with Grameenphone which stands as a famous name in telecom industry. We proud to work with Grameenphone and this experience will surely help us in our future assignments. By this term paper we are learning much about Grameenphone CSR. And we got wonderful experience during our working period to make this term paper. Last of all I thank our friends who were always inspired us during the working period. Our Vision We exist to help our customers get the full benefit of communications services in their daily lives. We’re here to help. Our Mission...
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...ANALY A YSIS O TEC OF CHNO-MANA AGERIA AL ISSUES OF SP I S PECTR RUM M MANAG GEMENT ON MOBI N ILE CO OMMU UNICATION A project re eport subm mitted in pa artial fulfil lment of the requ uirements f B.Tech. Project for . B.Tech. By Duyu Kom (IPG-2008-026) D mo Ni Deshd itin deep (IPG-2008-062) ) Rohit Basn (IPG-2 R nal 2008-076) ABV IN A NDIAN INSTI ITUTE OF INFO ORMAT TION T TECHN NOLOG AND GY D MANAG M GEME ENT GW WALIO OR-474 010 4 Septem mber 20 011 i CANDIDATES’ DECLARATION We hereby certify that the B.Tech project titled “ ANALYSIS OF TECHNOMANAGERIAL ISSUES OF SPECTRUM MANAGEMENT ON MOBILE COMMUNICATION” which is being submitted to ABV-Indian Institute of , Information Technology and Management, Gwalior for the partial fulfilment of Five Year Integrated Post Graduate Programme by Duyu Komo, Nitin Deshdeep, Rohit Basnal is a record of bona fide work done under my supervision and guidance. It is further certified that the work presented here has not been submitted to any other University or Institute for the award of any degree or diploma. Date: -------------------------Duyu Komo (2008IPG-26) -------------------------Nitin Deshdeep (2008IPG-62) ------------------------Rohit Basnal (2008IPG-76) This is to certify that the above statement made by the candidates is correct to the best of my knowledge. Date: -----------------------------Dr. Deepali Singh (ABV-IIITM Gwalior) ii ABSTRACT The prime aim of the study is to recognize and discuss...
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...Microeconomics of Competitiveness: Firms, Clusters, and Economic Development Submission of Assignment Student : Mas Wigrantoro Roes Setiyadi NPM : 8605210299 Program : S3 – Ilmu Manajemen – Pasca FEUI Date of Submission : September 13, 2005 Case: Finland and Nokia Assignment: 1. How was Finland able to move from a sleepy economy to one of the most competitive nations in the world by the end of the 1990s? 2. How was Finland able to become a world-leading nation in mobile communications? Why did this cluster emerge rather than others? 3. Why did Nokia become the world leader in mobile handsets? 4. What are the critical challenges for the Finnish government in 2001? For participants in the Finnish mobile communications cluster? For Nokia? 5. Given telecom downturn, what should the government do next? What should the private sector do? Answers: 1. Competitiveness of the nation does not lie on the government but rather depends on the capacity of its industry to innovate and upgrade (Porter, 1998). It is believed with innovation and upgrade industry as aggregate of companies would lead to increasing level of productivity. Porter emphasizes the importance of productivity as the prime determinant of a nation’s long-term standard of living. In most situations, industry will need government involvement to play its roles as facilitator (Musgrave, 1989) or through making public policy (Grindle & Thomas, 1991). However, the less the government gets involved in...
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...Ahsanullah University of Science & Technology Assignment on “Outsourcing of Telecommunication Networking” Course No : MBA-631 Course Title : Marketing Management. Course Teacher : Mr. S.K. Forid Submitted By: Md. HosnyMohashin 11.02.52.008 Introduction It has been argued for several years now that the phenomenon of ‘global production sharing’ through global value chains (GVCs), around which a substantial literature exists, has helped developing countries expand export-oriented manufacturing activity. GVCs represent the significant unit of organization of international production, wherein ‘lead firms’, largely multinational corporations (MNCs), coordinate production across international borders through extensive networks of suppliers spread across large numbers of countries. This has resulted in a significant change in the structure of international trade, leading to a domination of what has been referred to as the ‘trade in tasks’, that is, trade is no longer characteristically undertaken in goods, but rather in particular production segments (cut make-trim (CMT) versus the design brand market) of a production chain. The ‘trade in tasks’, empirically measured in terms of trade in intermediate goods, reflect this phenomenon, and the gains accruing to low- and middle-income countries in trade involvement are clearly seen here, with their share constituting more than 35 percent of...
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...China Mobile Organizational Behaviour BUS1020 Professor: Anna Bortolon December 9, 2015 Table of Contents Page Number Executive Summary 2 Statement of Research Questions 3 Company Background 5 Decision Criteria 5 Analysis of Situation 7 Alternatives 9 Recommendation and Conclusion 11 References 12 Executive Summary As the leader in China’s telecommunication industry, China Mobile should meet its consumer needs, however with customer expectations continuing to grow at an astounding rate, they organization has been struck with issues that stem from poor organizational management and behaviour (Hickie, 2012). Customer dissatisfaction and lack of customer loyalty has been a problem experienced by the organization stemming directly from a lack of employee satisfaction. To solve this problem the group has asked, “How can China Mobile increase its customer service satisfaction and in turn increase its customer loyalty?” Using the concepts and principles of organizational behaviour, the research questions have been analyzed resulting in recommendations and alternatives to overcome the issue. Job satisfaction, a reward system, goal setting and a change in organization culture is seen as the effective strategies in which to overcome employee dissatisfaction. Of these concepts, the reward system will best be applied to the organization. Outlined in the following document is our analytical...
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...TABLE OF CONTENT 1. Executive summary 2. Introduction to Training and Development 3. Importance of Training and Development 4. Need for the study • Title of the project • Statement of the problem • Purpose of the study • Scope of the study • Objectives of the study 5. Research methodology • Sampling plan • Area covered • Methodology 6. Data collection • Primary data • Secondary data 7. Data Analysis • Statistical tool • Statistical package 8. Limitation of the study 9. Theoretical aspects of training and development 10. Introduction to the company 11. Analysis and interpretation 12. Findings 13. Suggestions 14. Conclusion 15. Bibliography 16. Annexure TRAINING & DEVELOPMENT SURVEY AT BSNL |S.N |QUESTIONS |Strongly |Somewhat disagree |Neither agree nor |Some |Strongly agree | | | |disagree | |disagree |what agree | | |1. |Training helps in increasing productivity of employees, to |1 |2 |3 |4 |5 | | |achieve organizational goals. | | | | ...
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...World Dialogue on Regulation for Network Economies Regulation and Investment: Case study of Bangladesh Harsha de Silva[1] and Abu Saeed Khan[2] August 2004 Abstract The paper considers the available evidence in determining a relationship, if any, in the Telecom Regulatory Environment [TRE] of Bangladesh and investments in to its telecommunications industry over the last decade. TRE is segmented in to market entry, access to scarce resources, interconnection, tariff regulation and regulation of anti-competitive practices while investments are all non-divestiture foreign and domestic private and public investment. The TRE in Bangladesh is found to be wanting in all defined aspects. Interconnection is the worst of the five components, where a mobile only parallel network is being created due to regulatory ineffectiveness where almost ninety percent of mobile users do not have access to a fixed phone. Investments in to the fixed sector in Bangladesh dominated by the state owned virtual monopoly have been sorely inadequate and continue to be dictated by the funds availability [or lack thereof] of the Government. The mobile sector on the other hand has seen some amount of investments flowing in led by the widely acclaimed GrameenPhone. However, once standardized to compare across the region, it is found, even though using imperfect data to compare, that the reason for this flow could...
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...II. III. Indian Telecom Sector: An Overview ...................................................................................1-14 Telecom Commission.................................................................................................................... 15 Department of Telecommunications .....................................................................................17-29 III. 1. III. 2. III. 3. III. 4. III. 5. III. 6. III. 7. III. 8. III. 9. IV. V. VI. VII. Wireless Planning and Coordination ..................................................................30-39 Telecom Engineering Centre .................................................................................40-42 Universal Service Obligation Fund .....................................................................43-47 Controller of Communication Accounts Offices ...............................................48-50 Vigiliance Activities .................................................................................................51-52 Telecom Network Security ....................................................................................53-56 Empowerment of Women ......................................................................................57-58 Persons with Disabilities ........................................................................................59-60 Citizen's Charter & Grievance Redressal Mechanism ....................................61-65 Telecom Regulatory Authority...
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...Assignment/Project Front Sheet |CIM/CAM Membership | | |Number | | | | |Unit Title |Market Leadership and Planning | | | |Level/Award |Charted Postgraduate Diploma in Marketing | | | |Accredited Study Centre |Strategy | By submitting this assessment I confirm that I understand and abide by the CIM’s plagiarism and collusion regulation. (Optional) I hereby give consent for my assignment/project, if accepted, to be available for CIM use in relation to dissemination of best practice and, or, other appropriate purposes. It is on the understanding...
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