...SIEMENS: Training and development as a strategy for growth 1. How does workforce planning enable Siemens to identify its training needs?Answer:Siemens is a one of the largest electrical and electronics engineering companies in the world . Every year it employs 20000 people in UK . In addition, Siemens UK invested a huge amount of money only on research and development, because their business focused on µinnovation¶ . Therefore, for growth of their business, Siemens needs people with first class level of skill,knowledge and capability in engineering, IT, business and other relevant field . Siemens Company¶s strategic planning includes workforce planning, and it is a systematic process for identifying the human capital required to meet company¶s goals and developing thestrategies to meet these requirements . Workforce planning helps an organization to estimate itsfuture workforce requirements and calculate the numbers, nature and sources of potentialemployees who might meet that demand . In other words, it is about getting the right number of people, with the right skills, in the right place and at the right time . Such as workforce, planningenables Siemens to inspection its present staff numbers and the skill it has in place as well asidentify where it has skill gaps needed to meet its business objective . Therefore, workforce planning actually enables Siemens to identify the future and present...
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...main economic development strategies relate to economic growth/ development strategies and based on that discussion, what is actual today with regard to economic development? Development Economics Arman Poghosyan Yerevan, 2011 Growth and development are usually discussed in the same context while the goals of each are very different. Growth is mainly the process of expanding the size of community through the use of natural resources, economic resources and land. While development, on the other hand, is the process of improving living standards of community. Growth is critical for any community, but it doesn’t necessarily lead to development. Though usually there is no development without growth. One way to develop without growing is through two main economic development strategies, which are import substitution strategy and export promotion strategy. These two strategies were used by many countries to develop their economy. The choice between these two competing strategies is often difficult and subject of discussion of policy makers. And this choice often can be crucial. Import substitution strategy promotes domestic industry by substituting externally produced goods and services. Generally, countries applying import substitution strategies start with producing goods that don’t need an advanced technology. These goods usually are basic necessities such as food, water and energy. This strategy encourages development...
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...STRATEGY PAPER: Mobile Application Development Mobile Application Development Strategy Document No: Strategic Initiative: Coverage: Classification: RTC 01 Version : 1.0 Increasing customer loyalty base and enhancing customer reach through Mobile application Retail SBU Strategic Date Last 17.11.2014 Changed: Strategic High Value: Time Frame: Priority: Long Term High 1.0.Corporate/Business Vision: We are the most admired global energy company leveraging talent and technology. We are the first choice of customers, always We exploit profitable growth opportunities outside energy 2.0.Description of Strategic Initiative: Consumers are spending more time on their apps than ever before. Over the past half-decade, the proliferation of mobile devices has transformed us into an app-driven society, presenting marketers with new opportunities to connect with consumers by creating more interesting and sophisticated apps to command their attention. Mobility offers tremendous opportunities for every business unit in the enterprise. From optimizing processes to real-time collaboration, improved customer experiences to increased revenues, the benefits are big—but so are the challenges. Cisco recently published statistics that demonstrate how user demand is driving every enterprise down the mobile route whether they like it or not. Version 1.0 Page 1 STRATEGY PAPER: Mobile Application Development This explosive growth is...
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...Community Development Leadership Course Title: Global Poverty and Economic Development Term Paper Research Proposal Topic FINDING AN APPROPRIATE MIX OF FUNDING STRATEGIES FOR DISTRICT ASSEMBLIES TO PROMOTE POVERTY REDUCTION AND SUSTAINABLE RURAL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT IN GHANA PRESENTED TO: Professor Chung – Sik Yoo PRESENTED BY: Samuel Danaa DATE: September 23, 2014 1.0 Introduction: Ghana was the first country in Sub-Saharan Africa to attain independence and the post-independence economy appeared stable and prosperous raising the development hopes of its citizens. This was a period of real hope and expectations. After over fifty years its actual development is far below the development potential it holds and various propositions have been offered as to the way forward. Nearly more than half of Ghana’s population live in rural areas under what, by modern standards may be characterized as harsh and subnormal conditions. Every Ghanaian government since independence has been committed to improving the quality of life in the rural areas; however, they have been overwhelmed by economic conditions most of which they have been unable to control. Examining the achievements agencies tasked with responsibility, it is quite apparent that their successes in combating the development problem in rural areas are dismal. Having come to grips with the failures of past development model...
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...Sustainable Development Strategies (NSDS). Sustainable Development competes with many deeply entrenched values and therefore progress has been slow. Tensions between long term and short term thinking, and between economic growth and social and environmental sustainability, are not easy to resolve. The NSDS process has gained impetus following the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development, where it was agreed that countries need to take immediate steps to elaborate and formulate NSDS systems that can continuously improve. The UN Guidance Document describes an NSDS as a comprehensive, adaptable, continuous and long term undertaking that helps a country to achieve economic prosperity and higher levels of social welfare, while at the same time preserving the environment. An NSDS is not just something that can be put together in a document and be promulgated. Development of an NSDS requires multi-stakeholder participation, partnerships, country ownership, shared vision with a commitment to continuous improvement, capacity development and the ability to build on existing knowledge and processes and a clear focus on outcomes. Education is a central dimension of achieving sustainable development, and needs to be incorporated into the NSDS process. Learning is central to the process of NSDS development and implementation. Education for Sustainable Development and National Sustainable Development Strategies Education has been identified as an important social strategy for...
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...C. M E R L E C R A W F O R D STRATEGIES FOR NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT Guidelines for a critical company problem C. Merle Crawford is a faculty m e m b e r at the University o f Michigan. In spite o f much evidence o f its success, many managers hesitate to establish a policy for new product development. Their indecision often arises f r o m two reasons: they fear that a defined strategy may discourage innovation and they are uncertain how to formulate a new product strategy. The author o f this article discredits the f o r m e r notion and, in reply to the latter, proposes the guidelines f o r developing such a statement. As new products are essential to the continued success o f most firms, the strategy must exist and must be operant i f the firm is to avoid wasted time, effort, and money as well as employee confusion and discouragement. For longer than most of us care to remember, Dan Gerber has been proclaiming that babies are his business, his only business. With some nostalgic regret I read recently that he has altered his strategy: he now permits limited diversification b e y o n d products for babies. A leading toiletries manufacturer has an equally tenacious, though unpublicized, commitment to only those new, nonfood, packaged goods that do not compete itemto-item with Procter and Gamble. Richard Rifenburgh, president of Mohawk Data Sciences, manufacturers of peripheral computer equipment, was cited recently in Fortune as a man who, at the present time, would...
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...mentioned above, the author Kuotsai Tom Liou was trying to find out two answers: first of all, how has China achieved its development? Second, what can we learn from this story? The article starts with a brief introduction about how important the economic development is. Then the article uses few paragraphs to point out different development methods during different reformation period of China. At the end of the introduction, the author threw out the two main points which have already mentioned above. On the next section, the author began to focus on the time-line of China’s development. He listed out events and reformations paragraph by paragraph. This section help the readers better get their ideas into shape. In order to make a strong argument, Kuotsai Tom Liou provided few forms while he was talking about China’s macroeconomic structural reformation. Next, the author dug in-depth and discussed about the four major strategies implemented that readers should focus on. The four major strategies are: the contract responsibility system, the dual price system, special economic zones, and administrative reform. These changes all represent different reform periods. Next then, the author summed up little bit, he used one section to talk about the lessons we should learn from economic development. In this section, the author overall expounded how Chinese development experience occurred and became successful while it interact with government, environment, special economic zones. The author...
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...Joel Greene Chapter 7 Questions 1. Software as a Service, or SaaS, describes any cloud service where consumers are able to access software applications over the internet. The applications are hosted in “the cloud” and can be used for a wide range of tasks for both individuals and organizations. Google, Twitter, Facebook and Flickr are all examples of SaaS, with users able to access the services via any internet enabled device. Enterprise users are able to use applications for a range of needs, including accounting and invoicing, tracking sales, planning, performance monitoring and communications (including webmail and instant messaging). This an important trend. Instead of buying a software application from a software company, producing it in-house, or hiring a consultant or outside resource to produce a software package these web-based firms have provided a new alternative based on three separate models. These models are a fixed fee model, subscription model or usage model. Fixed fee does exactly that, provides a fixed fee or cost based on a service level required by the user. The subscription model varies cost based on number of users and workstations accessing the application. The usage model charges fees based on the transaction volume or number of operations performed by the applications. 2. Horizontal applications differ from vertical applications in that they provide a solution for many companies based on a common need. Applications such as accounting,...
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...Towards the Sustainable Corporation: Win-Win-Win Business Strategies for Sustainable Development John Elkington §§ I often wake up in the middle of the night," Pope John XXIII once said, "and start thinking about grave problems—and decide to talk about them with the Pope. Then I wake up completely and remember that I am the Pope." Western industrial societies have undergone a similar awakening over the last three decades as the scale of the environmental and natural resource problems they face has become increasingly clear. In doing so—and before they finally accept that the responsibility for tackling these problems is theirs, not something to be pushed onto future generations—they typically move through a number of stages. These have included: ignorance awakening denial guilt reduction, displacement behaviour, and tokenism conversion integration In the wake of the publication of Our Common Future, the 1987 report of the World Commission on Environment and Development,' and the UN Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) held in Rio de Janeiro in June 1992, the concept of sustainable development—involving the integration of environmental thinking into every aspect of social, political, and economic activity—has become central to the environmental debate. This article considers some of the ways in which business is now developing new "win-win-win" strategies in this area to simultaneously benefit the company, its customers, and the environment. I Towards the...
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...Siemens AG: Global Development Strategy • What were the major causes of the problems with the NetManager project? (I’m not looking for a list of points made in the case; I’m looking for you to step back to a higher level and analyze why these problems occurred.) The problems experienced by the NetManager project appear to be symptoms of integration vs. responsiveness issue within Siemens AG. As a transnational company, Siemens faces strong pressure to globally integrate its operations, and be responsive to the needs of their offices and customer’s needs. The main problem with NetManager was that it had mushroomed in size and strategic importance. This was the result of keeping up with the rapidly changing technological demands, and NetManager becoming a highly visible product for Siemens’ largest customers. Analyzing the various problems, we see that despite the competence of the Bangalore RDC, there is a serious number of integration problems between Munich headquarters and Bangalore. First, there was a gap in product knowledge and competence, which resulted in unrealistic expectations such as project deadlines. Indians held proficiency in desktop and personal computing programming languages, while the Germans held extensive product knowledge concerning their EWSD technology and its functions. As the project grew in size and scope, it required interdependence amongst EWSD systems, knowledge held by German management and not sufficiently provided to Bangalore. Then...
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...Siemens AG: Global Development Strategy • What were the major causes of the problems with the NetManager project? (I’m not looking for a list of points made in the case; I’m looking for you to step back to a higher level and analyze why these problems occurred.) The problems experienced by the NetManager project appear to be symptoms of integration vs. responsiveness issue within Siemens AG. As a transnational company, Siemens faces strong pressure to globally integrate its operations, and be responsive to the needs of their offices and customer’s needs. The main problem with NetManager was that it had mushroomed in size and strategic importance. This was the result of keeping up with the rapidly changing technological demands, and NetManager becoming a highly visible product for Siemens’ largest customers. Analyzing the various problems, we see that despite the competence of the Bangalore RDC, there is a serious number of integration problems between Munich headquarters and Bangalore. First, there was a gap in product knowledge and competence, which resulted in unrealistic expectations such as project deadlines. Indians held proficiency in desktop and personal computing programming languages, while the Germans held extensive product knowledge concerning their EWSD technology and its functions. As the project grew in size and scope, it required interdependence amongst EWSD systems, knowledge held by German management and not sufficiently provided to Bangalore. Then...
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...Strategy Development Plan Snead's Dry Cleaning Company has been established and successfully operating area near downtown Washington, Dc tor past 30 years. It is being run under the sole proprietorship by Sheldon Snead's l6lde. The company has a large customer base and provides dry cleaning services for women and men clothing items. The customers can choose to pay either at the time of picking up the items, or by monthly credit card billing. At the end of each month the customers are sent statements itemizing service fees and the charge tor the services to their credit cards for payment. The business will take on to provide concierge pickup and drop off service for dry cleaning and laundry in areas nearby downtown Washington, DC. The business is planning to utilize modem equipment that could handle more throughput as the operating times has been increased from 9 to 16 hours per day. The huge regular customer base is the indication of high service quality and enhanced image of Snead’s Dry Cleaning Company. The sales forecast gradually increase over the next few years based on some basic changes in the operation of business. The Snead’s Dry Cleaning Company earned $580,000 in the previous year, by increasing the operating times and initiating pickup/ drop off laundry service the sales will increase and the business will be able to retain its current customers and attract potential customers. Strategic Objectives: • For providing the laundry and dry cleaning services for...
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...Our Vision To create a strong international brand name in the construction and its allied Industry Our Mission Statement To perform for our customers the highest level of quality construction services at fair and market competitive prices. To maintain the highest levels of professionalism, integrity, honesty and fairness in our relationships with our suppliers, subcontractors, professional associates and customers. To ensure the longevity of our company achieved by customer satisfaction in all areas including timeliness, attention to detail and service minded attitudes. 1.0 2.0 3.0 4.0 5.0 6.0 7.0 8.0 9.0 10.0 11.0 12.0 13.0 HANEDA Group Companies & Affiliates Introduction Company Information Notable Projects Organization chart Principal clients Project Field Experience Manpower Mobilization and Management Projects Details Company Machineries Skill Training School Labors in Agricultural Field Labors in Service Industry Malaysia Haneda Trading & Construction Sdn. Bhd Haneda Cosmo Properties Sdn. Bhd Gunung Bina Sdn. Bhd & Utusan Kejora Sdn. Bhd Jua Yakin Sdn. Bhd. Vietnam Vietnam Manpower and Construction JSC (VietMC) International Manpower Supplying and Construction JSC (NIBELC) New Star Consulting Services Engineering Co, Ltd. Singapore Haneda Services Pte Ltd Haneda Project Services Indonesia P.T. Maru Ichi Jaya India Haneda Infra P Ltd Sunrock Construction & Trading P Ltd Haneda Consultants and Agencies P Ltd Sri Lanka Newstar Constructors P Ltd Laksan Mizutani...
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...The development and future strategy of Ryanair Ryanair became in 2009 the airline company which carry the most passengers in Europe. That is the result of its strategy which is based on a ‘no frills’ service in order to offer the lower prices. The business model of Ryanair is different from the classic carriers’ in the way that 20% of its revenue is generated from ancillary revenue, such as its “buy on board” program or extra fees for luggage. As we have seen above, the airline industry is very dynamic, and the apparition of alliances within the market forces Ryanair to stay competitive in its environment. Until now, the company did it very well by being emergent, its flexible structure and culture allowed Ryanair to be the number one on its market. To keep this place, Ryanair needs to adapt itself by choosing a development strategy. For that, there are different directions that Ryanair might take. Development opportunities “In a decade or so, airlines will pay the travellers to distribute people around Europe” Michael O’Leary, the Ryanair’s CEO summarizes the future direction of its company with this sentence. Therefore, Ryanair has to continue to find innovative cut reduction methods, as well as innovative revenue generation methods. In order to remain competitive with its business model, Ryanair will need to have the largest amount of routes in Europe and the lowest fare. It is now clear that there is only room for one or two major actors in the low-cost airline...
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...Strategic Planning STRATEGIC BUSINESS PLAN for (company name) for Period January 2002 to December 2005 (dates are examples only) Approved by (name), (position), on (date) Update Status: (amendment number), on (date) TABLE OF CONTENTS Executive Summary Section Page 1. Strategic Focus 2. The Business 3. Market Analysis 4 Products 5 Marketing 6 Research and Development 7 Production and Delivery 8 Supply Chains 9 Business Systems and Processes 10. Stakeholder Relationships and Alliances 11. Organisational and Management 12 Environmental and Social Impacts 13 Risk Factors and Regulatory Compliance 14 Corporate Governance 15 Financials 16 Application of Investment Funds 17 Strategic Action Plan 18 Plan Improvement Appendices: 1. 2. 3. Some Thoughts on Writing this Plan before We Start • Clearly identify the readers of this document. Then write the plan in a style that is easily understood by readers • Remember that this plan is a working document that has the clear purpose of initiating focussed action and generating clear and measurable results. Avoid the excessive use of descriptive adjectives to 'pad' or over-sell the plan. Flowery, highly descriptive language can cloud key issues, blur the plan's focus and slow/confuse its implementation • Keep the plan 'tight'; ensure it remains concise, balanced, clear...
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