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...Summary LM………………………………………………………………………… 3 Introduction KGW ……………………………………………………………………………….5 External Analysis KGW .…………………………………………………………………………5 General Environment KGW……………………………………………………………... 5 Technological Factors KGW ....…………………………………………………..5 Economic Factors KGW ………………………………………………………… 6 Demographic Factors KGW..……………………………………………………..7 Global Factors KGW ……………………………………………………………. 7 Sociocultural Factors KGW..……………………………………………………..7 Industry Environment KGW .……………………………………………………………. 8 Opportunities KGW..…………………………………………………………….. 8 Threats KGW..…………………………………………………………………… 9 Porter’s Five Forces KGW...………………………………………………………………9 Threats of New Entrants KGW …………………………………………………...9 Bargaining Power of Buyers KGW……………………………………………...10 Bargaining Power of Suppliers KGW……………………………………………10 Threat of Substitutes KGW………………………………………………………10 Internal Rivalry KGW……………………………………………………………11 Internal Analysis LM…………………………………………………………………………….11 Core Competencies and Competitive Advantages LM…………………………………..11 Sustainable Competitive Advantages LM……………………………………………… 13 Organizational Culture and Leadership LM …………………………………………….14 Strategic Alternatives KGW & LM ……………………………………………………………..20 Business Strategy LM …………………………………………………………………...20 Corporate Strategy KGW………………………………………………………………. 21 Global Strategy KGW………………………………………………………………….. 22 Recommendations KGW……………………………………………………………………….. 23 References ………………………………………………………………………………………24 Executive...
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...Interpretation 24 (Of Our Survey) 24 Findings of Study 37 Tourism Marketing Management * Tourism Sector in India (Overview) Introduction Tourism and hospitality, a key sector of the Indian economy, plays a key role in the growth of Brand India and accounts for around 12.4 per cent of the total employment in India. Globally, tourism ranks fifth as an export category after fuels, chemicals, food and automotive products. The tourism and hospitality sector in India is highly optimistic with a large number of hotel chains having lied up their expansion plans. The renewed sense of optimism comes on the back of a volatile economic environment for most part of 2014 and the sector hopes that initiatives announced by the new government, including those related to e-visas and specific funds for developing tourist circuits, would lead to good business. The policies and changes implemented by the Government of India have been...
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...Topic: A study on Deliverance ltd. opening a new branch in South East London. Contents ........................................................................................................................1 Abstract ........................................................................................................................2 Statement of problem ...................................................................................................3 Introduction ..................................................................................................................4 Advantages of opening new branch in South East London .........................................6 Disadvantages of opening new branch in South East London .....................................7 Literature Review .........................................................................................................8 PEST analysis ...............................................................................................................9 SWOT analysis ............................................................................................................11 Michael Porters five forces ..........................................................................................13 Boston Consulting Group ............................................................................................15 Stakeholders Analysis ................................
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...Week 2 The business context 1. Porter’s Five Forces Where does the power lie? How do I maximise my power and leverage? How do I identify and minimise my weaknesses? The threat of new entrants, bargaining power of suppliers, bargaining power of buyers, threat of substitute products or services and rivalry among existing competitors 2. Porter’s Generic Strategies How do I gain a competitive advantage in business? What strategies will help me achieve my goals? 3.1 The Cost Leadership Strategy 3.2.1 Increase profits by reducing costs 3.2.2 Industry-average prices 3.2.3 Increasing market share 3.2.4 Low costs mean greater profit You will need: 3.2.5 Strong control over Cost of Labour 3.2.6 Preferential access to raw materials, components etc. 3.2.7 Take advantage of economies of scale 3.2.8 Easy access to supply chains and affordable logistics 3.2 The Differentiation Strategy 3.3.9 Create a product that is perceived as unique 3.3.10 Brand Loyalty 3.3.11 Can provide better insulation from competition You will need: 2.2.4 Strong R&D 2.2.5 Creativity 2.2.6 Unique Marketing Strategy 2.2.7 Innovate to stay ahead of the competition 2.3 Focus Strategy 2.3.1 Focus on niche markets 2.3.2 Unique understanding of the market 2.3.3 Either cost leadership or differentiation You will need: 2.3.4 Unique/specific insight into the market 2.3.5 Knowledge of suppliers and specialists...
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...and making important offers attracting in new customers. Domino’s quickly became the premium pizza takeaway, serving locals and focusing on all categories of people (student, family, alone person ...). An exciting menu of 14 different pizzas with an option of having four diverse range of dough. The main aim of Domino’s pizza is to make best quality pizzas and offer best value for the customer, so their values are summed up: “Sell more pizza, have more fun!” Mission: The mission of Domino’s Pizza is to be the best pizza delivery company in the world. Domino’s offers the finest customer services. So, Domino’s pizza has a passion to serve delicious pizzas. Vision: Domino’s Pizza wants to be the pizza first choice in the world that is says to detain half of pizza’s market. They aim to open 50 new stores each year. So today, they are working towards their goal of opening 1,000 stores by 2017. Objectives: Domino’s Pizza plc. Recognises that its day to day operations impact the environment. The company is committed to delivering great tasting, hot pizzas and will aim for continuous improvement in all aspects of its environment performance, while continuing to deliver a great service to its customers. Key to success: Every business has to set goals and to achieve them. There are some main...
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...word TOURISM refers tour which is derived from the Latin word "TORNUS" . It means a tool for describing a circle of turner's wheel (Bhatia, 2002). It is very important pleasure activity where tourists travel from one to another countries and one region to another region as well.And Tourism also involves money for getting services and time.So, it basically result for temporary visit or move from their place to other places.Therefore facilities provided to visitors to satisfy their wants and needs come in tourism activity. Tourism is increasing expanding activity in national or international level.So nowdays it has become serious concerns for any national. Nepal is a very small and natural beautiful country where almost 82 percent people are engaged in agriculture even though the agriculture sectors contribute only 55 percent on the gross domestic product and 50% of the total export. It is always put in the major or first priority in every periodic plan. And there is always huge budget amount for agriculture. But the productivity is going always downwards because of structure problem raising in Nepal. For example Topographical conditions, lack of irrigation facility, lack of modern technical use and lack of commercialization. Like agriculture, manufacturing sector is also not very good in Nepal it has provided only 10 percent employment and it has only 20 percent contribution on gross domestic product. There has a lots of investment and efforts to developed industrial sector but...
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...McDonald’s Corporation Marketing Plan Susie Ransom MKT Abstract This paper discusses McDonalds Marketing Plan for the future. Below I will cover the goals and objectives of their current and future coals for the corporation. Topics that will be discussed include the Situation Analysis, customer environment, competition, economic growth and stability, political trends, technological advancements, sociocultural trends, marketing goals and objectives, marketing strategy, marketing implementation and finally the timeline in which it will take McDonalds to implement these goals. Executive Summary McDonalds is known as the world number one selling Fast Food Company. They serve their famous burgers and fries in over one hundred countries around the world. While the majority of their restaurants are stand alone, they also have many franchises that are owned by everyday people like me and you. Their franchises have been their ticket to success; they are the top in the fast food industry because they stay unified in quality and marketing aspects. No matter which type of restaurant, whether corporate or franchised owned. Although, McDonalds are number one in the industry, in order to stay in their position they need to increase sales through expanding into new markets. They have been successful in the past in China and other markets. One of their strengths lies in their versatility to adapt to the culture of foreign markets. By serving traditional cuisine along...
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...Tamara J. Erickson and Lynda Gratton IT’S THE HR EQUIVALENT OF KEEPING UP | 104 Harvard Business Review March 2007 | hbr.org Jason Greenberg with the Joneses: In their quest to find and retain top talent, businesses often try to match competitors’ offers, ensuring that their compensation schemes, health care benefits, training programs, and other talent-management practices are in line with the rest of the industry’s. While this strategy may be useful for bringing job candidates to the door, it’s not necessarily the most effective way to usher the right people across the threshold – great employees who will be enthusiastic about their work and fiercely loyal to the organization and its mission. What It Means to Work Here Nor does marching in lockstep with industry standards prompt companies to consider what’s unique about their histories and values or potential employees’ attitudes about work. Certainly, reasonable pay and a breadth of health care options matter to prospective hires, as do the tasks they’ll have to perform. But people also choose jobs–and, more important, become engaged with their work – on the basis of how well their preferences and aspirations mesh with those of the organization. Imagine yours is one of three job offers a talented candidate is mulling over. She hears a little about the orientation program at each firm. At your company, the first three months their ability to attract and retain the right people–employees who are excited...
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...A PROJECT REPORT ON Detail Study Of HDFC Mutual Fund Submitted For the partial fulfillment of the requirement for The Degree of MBA Submitted by: MD NABEEL Registration No. –070651940 MBA –IV Trimester SESSION (2007-2009) INTERNAL GUIDE JYOTSHNA RAI IIPM - School Of Management BIJU PATNAIK UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY ROURKELA, ORISSA. DECLARATION I do hereby declare that the project entitled “DETAIL STUDY OF HDFC- MUTUAL FUND” submitted as a part of the requirement for the partial fulfillment of Master of Business Administration at BIJU PATNAIK UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, ORISSA is an original piece of work done by me under the guidance of • Mr Manmohan Mohapatra (Branch manager) • Mr Sanket Swaroop • Mr Vikash Gupta. At HDFC Mutual Fund , Rourkela has not been submitted for award of any degree else where in part or full. Name:-Md Nabeel Regd :-0706519040 [pic] certificate of the Guide This is to certify that the work entitled “DETAIL STUDY OF HDFC- MUTUAL FUND” is a piece of Summer Project Report done by MD NABEEL, student of MBA IV Trimester IIPM SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT, Kansbahal , Rourkela bearing Reg. No 0706519042 under my guidance and supervision for partial fulfillment of MBA curriculum of BIJU PATNAIK UNIVERSITY...
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...century and is home to various Amerindian civilizations such as the Maya and Aztec tribes. Administered as the Viceroyalty of New Spain for three centuries, it achieved its independence early in the 19th century. The elections held in 2000 marked the first time since the 1910 Mexican Revolution that an opposition candidate - Vicente FOX of the National Action Party (PAN) - defeated the party in government, the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). Another PAN candidate Felipe CALDERON succeeded him in 2006, but the PRI regained the presidency in 2012. B. Religious and Cultural Background The word “Mexico” is derived from Mexica, the name for the indigenous group also known as the Aztecs. Aside from this, Mexicans have several cultural subdivisions within the nation, most commonly identifying themselves as Northern, Central and South/South-Eastern Mexico. The extensive, desertlike north was only sparsely populated until the middle of the twentieth century - but the more densely populated central and western Mexico is the cradle of the nation. This is where highly developed Indian cultures populated the region in pre-Columbian times and was the heart of the colony of New Spain. These have developed into large cities and major urban and industrial centers. (Everyculture.com) Mexico is predominantly Roman Catholic consisting of least three quarters of the population with around six percent adhering to various other protestant faiths. Many of these still hold various elements...
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...Cornett a,*, Gayane Hovakimian b, Darius Palia c, Hassan Tehranian d,* a Department of Finance, College of Business, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL 62901, USA b Graduate School of Business, Fordham University, New York, NY 10023, USA c Columbia Business School, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA d Carroll School of Management, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02167, USA Received 22 May 2000; accepted 16 May 2001 Abstract This paper examines whether shareholder value-maximizing corporate governance mechanisms assist in reducing the managerial incentive to enter value-destroying bank acquisitions. We find that diversifying bank acquisitions earn significantly negative announcement period abnormal returns (AR) for bidder banks whereas focusing acquisitions earn zero AR. We then find that corporate governance variables (such as CEO share and option ownership and a smaller board size) in the bidding bank are less effective in diversifying acquisitions than in focusing acquisitions. These results are robust to the inclusion of the usual control variables. Ó 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved. JEL classification: G21; G34 Keywords: Banks; Bank acquisitions; Corporate governance 1. Introduction Several empirical studies have documented a negative relation between firm performance and the level of diversification in a firm’s lines of business in the 1980s (see Corresponding authors. Address: Carroll School of Management, Boston College, Chestnut...
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...Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Business Administration in Dibrugarh University) Submitted by: Mr. Siddhartha Neog Roll No: 103/12 MBA (Marketing and HR) NERIM NORTH EASTERN REGIONAL INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT Padma Nath Sarmah Bhawan Joyanagar, Khanapara, Guwahati-781022 (2013) DECLARATION I SIDDHARTHA NEOG hereby declare that this project entitled ‗A STUDY ON SUBSCRIBERS SHOWING FLUCTUATIING USAGE BEHAVIOR‘ was prepared by me during the year 2012 – 14 and was submitted in partial fulfillment of requirement for the award of degree in Master in Business Administration (MBA) of Dibrugarh University. This project report has not been submitted earlier for the award of any other Degree Diploma from Dibrugarh University or any other university. Date: Place: Guwahati Signature (SIDDHARTHA NEOG) CERTIFICATE FROM THE GUIDE This is to Certify that this project titled, a study on ―A STUDY ON THE SUBSCRIBERS SHOWING FLUCTUATING USAGE BEHAVIOUR‖ based on an original project study conducted by SIDDHARTHA NEOG of III Semester Master in Business Administration (MBA) under my guidance. He has attended the required guidance sessions held. This project has not formed the basis for the award of any Degree/Diploma by Dibrugarh University or any other university. Date: Place: Guwahati Signature (Name of the Guide) ACKNOWLEDGEMENT I would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who has directly or indirectly...
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...(Investigate the planning principles and range of tools and techniques involved in developing a general or marketing strategy) 1(A) INTRODUCTION In India Aditya Birla Retail Limited (ABRL) operated “More Mega Store” is a major high street retailer at the moment. They have started their journey by taking over Trinetra stores in India’s Andhra Pradesh which now been operated in twenty five countries worldwide. Being equipped with 130,00,000 employees it is operating its business in India, USA, Luxembourg, Malaysia, UK, Germany, Bangladesh, Egypt, Hungary, Myanmar, Singapore, Laos ,Brazil, Italy, Philippines, France, Vietnam, Indonesia, Thailand, Dubai, Switzerland, China, Korea, Australia, Canada. ABRL works in healthcare, education, urban and social issues in three thousands and six hundred villages. It achieved an award of Best Employer of India. This organisation has grown up from my neighbourhood and very much familiar to me. As I am a witness of the organizations grow up and my subject of study also similar; I have no doubt to choose this organization as a subject of my present study. 1(B) Strategic marketing planning presents a useful process by which an organization formulates its strategies, providing it is adapted to the organization and its environment. Although it can bring many hidden benefits, like the better coordination of company activities, a strategic marketing plan is mainly concerned with competitive advantage – that is to say, establishing, building, defending...
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...Emirates Motor Company in the Importation of Automobiles from Germany to UAE Name of Student Name of Instructor Name of Institution Date of Submission Executive Summary There are a number of challenges faced by organizations wishing to conduct business with other firms in a foreign country. The reason behind this is that the organization will be required to engage either in the importation or exportation of goods or services. The Emirates Motor Company has for many years engaged in the importation of Mercedes Benz from Germany into the UAE. One of the major challenges that the organization has suffered is lack of sufficient funding. As such, the organization has not been in a position to fully exploit the UAE market. The company also has to deal with high cost of operations. Importation activities require firms to pay for shipping and loading charges for the goods. The importer also has to incur insurance charges. The costs result in an increase in the cost of commodities making them undesirable to customers. Delays in payment also make it difficult for the company to replenish its stock. Outline 1. Executive Summary 2. Introduction 3. Literature Review a) An Overview of the Emirates Motor Company’s Import Business b) History of Importation of Mercedes Benz Automobiles from Germany to the UAE c) External Analysis of the World Automobile Industry d) External Analysis of the Trade between the UAE and Germany in Automobiles e) Internal Analysis...
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