...POLICY PAPER: EUROPEAN STANDARIZATION POLICY Kristiana Elvis Boyadzhieva 20118703 Kristiana.boyadzhieva@gmail.com MBA 546: European Union Matthias C. Suthe Policy Paper 1, February 2014 Each student will select one aspect of EU policy and discuss how it affects different industries, companies, and countries. The paper will involve both providing a general summary of the policy area as well as advising on specific policy changes that might be undertaken and/or are currently under discussion in that area. The paper should present and reflect on the positions of the EU, Member States, Corporate interests, and Citizen Interests. There is probably no area in Europe, which is not be heavily affected by the EU standardization policy. Whether on the European, national, corporate or citizen level – the omnipresence and importance of the EU standardization policy is undisputed and is comparable maybe just with the influence of the EURO. Therefore it is not suprising that EU nations, as well as industries and companies are trying to take an influence on the standardization process, to assure and strengthen their competitiveness and future. European standardization is certainly not only of European significance, but also plays an extremely important role in the global competitive position of the EU and Europe. In the next paragraphs we will provide an overview about the main principles of the European Standadization policy, its goals and benefits, the institutions involved...
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...NETW583 Course Project Intel Corporation has been great in the past when it had seen success. But of the last couple decade its success has not been top shape. But to achieve this success they are reaching for they will need an effective deployment strategy within their market, Intel Corporation needs to implement a technology strategy that will showcase its encompasses ability to involve business groups throughout the planning process, while maintaining integration of the processes from within things like their corporate planning schedule, Intel’s plans should rapidly change within the market, and staying abreast of the technology curve while simultaneously achieving the largest returns conceivable on every initiative and areas of focus. Intel’s has shown us a strong desire to maintain accomplishments in the production of the fastest and most powerful CPU’s in the industry. An effective approach to Intel retaining these goals would be for Intel to know exact what strategy is effective to manages strategic planning. Intel’s strategic planning process should be able to address long-term direction for IT leaders and develop strategies that address future goals and objectives. Furthermore, the integration of Intel’s strategic planning calendar with the corporate planning cycle will ensure that Intel will preserve the synchronicity of these aspects with the company’s planned direction. Also, the collaboration and consolidation of Intel’s experts and ideas garnered from all Intel...
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...Executive Summery and Report Summery In this case the technology giant Microsoft was charged US Department of Justice and European Union. Microsoft possesses very dominating business policies over the technology market and over their customers for decades. The strategies of the company cannot be termed as illegal in many reasons. But its policies were unethical. Microsoft was firstly charged by US Department of Justice in 2001. It is close observations of European Union form 1998. So Microsoft’s business policies were questioned inside and outside US as because Microsoft tries to take over the technology market in its arena and infringed the minimum liberties of the customers. Answers of the Questions Q1. Why was Microsoft being perused by the US Department of Justice and then fined by the EU? Ans: Microsoft case is a glaring example of unethical practice in the business market. The ethical principle did not come into being overnight. Trough several cases or incidents the ethical norms are developed and applied in our daily life. Microsoft case is one of such incidents which actually established some ethical norms in the business market. Microsoft as business giant had a tendency to dominate the market monopolistically or take excessive control over the free market. The US Department of Justice and European Union basically charged Microsoft firstly because it did not left any choice to it’s customer over Windows components in any installation of the operating system....
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...Innovation -strategies and finance- Index 1. Introduction 2. Tips for innovation 2.1 Increase Productivity 2.2 Implement a Continuous Improvement Culture 2.3 Create an Innovation Culture 2.4 Developing Talent and Ability to Innovate 2.5 Design and Build New-Growth 2.6 Collaboration 3. Innovation in the EU 3.1 Marco’s Programme. 3.2 Innovation Union 3.2.1 Conclusions innovation unión. 4. Conclusions 5. Biography 2 Introduction Innovation is the development of new customers value through solutions that meet new needs, inarticulate needs, or old customer and market needs in value adding new ways. This is accomplished through more effective products, processes, services, technologies, that are readily available to markets, governments, and society. Innovation differs from invention in that innovation refers to the use of a better and, as a result, novel idea or method, whereas invention refers more directly to the creation of the idea or method itself. Innovation differs from improvement in that innovation refers to the notion of doing something different rather than doing the same thing better. In business and economics, innovation is the catalyst to growth. With rapid advancements in transportation and communications over the past few decades, the old world concepts of factor endowments and comparative advantage which focused on an area’s unique inputs are outmoded for today’s global economy. Economist Joseph Schumpeter, who contributed greatly to the study of innovation...
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...target the European market. The two countries that are proposed are Poland and Hungary, which will be analysed on the criteria in section 4.0. 2.0 Product: “Q-chat” This product is a telecommunication device that runs purely on the basis of messenger through MSN and Yahoo. The product is NOT a mobile phone. Both these countries’s telecommunication markets are over saturated with mobile phones, making it very competitive. The product is manufactured in Japan for their high resources in technology resources. Q-chat is an innovative, telecommunication alternative for people who use the SMS function heavily. The product consists of the following features: • GSM – Function connecting Q-chat to the internet • GPRS – Function allowing internet connection to be done on a wireless mode • TDMA – Function that allows the date to be transferred All these functions are combined and presented into a small, compact accessory item. The item can be carried everywhere and is aimed at both females and males. Q-chat will run on the pre-paid sim card function, giving customers different rates depending on the amount of credit they wish to purchase. (GSM World, 2006, ¶2). 3.0 Country Summary: Hungary The republic of Hungary is democratic state with a population of 10,106,000 people. The country was one of many countries to be granted acceptance into the European Union on the 1st of May 2004. Being a member of the European Union means adopting the European Monetary Union, the standard...
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...Economics of the European Union ECN309X Essay term 1 To what extent did the 1992 Single Market programme create a single market across the EU? Linde Cloosterman 10418300 14th December 2012 In January 1992 The European Single Market was formed. The prospects were compromising. Hooley et al. (2012) explain that the programme would provide the free flow of products and services, people and capital between the member states of the European Union. Another point was the intention to improve economic performance by lowering costs of trading across national borders within the European Union. But also to boost economies of scale of operation to achieve more competitiveness against the US internal market. However, the developments within the Single Market were not always positive. An example that illustrates this are diverse economies in the euro-zone operating at different speeds, facing different levels of public sector debt but without the freedom to set separate exchange or interest rates (Hooley et al., 2012). The economic crisis within the euro-zone had negative effects on the Single market as well. Therefore it can be questioned: to what extent did the 1992 Single Market programme create a single market across the European Union? Due to the prolonged economic recession by the beginning of 1980 it was clear that the competitive position of the European Community was decreasing. Outcomes with stagnating negative effects within the European economy, rising unemployment...
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...of the Baltic companies to get along with regulations of the EU [Sélectionnez la date] Prepared by Vytautas Magnus University students: Povilas Brilius Žygintas Dovydėnas Karolina Mališauskaitė Table of contents Introduction 3 Key aspects of the Baltic States’ energy companies 3 Common situation 5 Context of the European Union 7 Conclusions and recommendations 8 References 9 Introduction Recent events in global and local spheres are important to Baltic States’ energy economics. Among those are a) late collaboration initiatives between Baltic States’ governments to endorse regional projects in order to get connected into the EU energy network b) new EU regulatory frameworks, in particular applying to Baltic States energy markets situation c) the declining EU position in terms of energy sector competitiveness. These facts require deeper and more thorough investigation into Baltic energy market players and their abilities to meet demands of changing environment. Authors of this short paper seek to discuss and propose ways for Baltic States’ energy companies...
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...* Introduction: * Approaches focussed: * Divisions of approaches and applies: * Merits and demerits of approaches: * Conclusion * Reference Consider this practical case perspective on how e-commerce has affected your favourite orange airline: Intro: Easy jet is an European airline which was launched in 1995 by its founder Greekcy Priot Stelios Haji-Loannou. It was started with two wet leased Boeing like 737-200 aircrafts and today it operates 196 aircrafts with 20 buses all over around the Europe. It carried 45.2 million passengers in the year of 2009 which made it as a second largest low cost European airline behind Ryanair. In 2002, Easy jet bought London Stansted based Go airline £ 374 million (easy-jet.com). Go was the low cost scheduled passenger airline which provides service within the Europe. The main reason behind this acquisition was profitable and established airline with strong growing aspects that reveals a year to year increase of 232 per cent. Nearly 90% of sales in Easy jet are online from this website. There are two significant features based on its success are: low price and E- commerce strategies .The purpose of this Easy jet‘s, online the presence of information’s and procedures to sketch and propose suggestion on the progression involved in creating a booming online presence( David & Cynthia1999). Apart from this it will define its approaches for its significant success of industry. In this paper, we will first...
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... Georgi Kamburov georgikamburov_92@abv.bg INT305- Overview of the European Union Dragomir Stoyanov Research Paper Feb.6, 2012 "Europe 2020" is a 10-year strategy proposed by the European Commission on March 3, 2010 and it is a plan for reviving the economy of the European Union. "Europe 2020" is a multifaceted strategy for sustainable growth and workplaces for the next decade, aiming to help Europe to emerge stronger, from its worst economic crisis dating from the 30s of the twentieth century till now. On January 15, 2010 officially ended the consultation and discussion of the draft new EU strategy: More than 1,500 suggestions were made by various interested parties: Member States, regions, business and professional associations, NGOs and scientific organizations, non-EU countries and international organizations. Overall, the proposed strategy and its priorities meet universal approval with the recommendation, to avoid the mistakes of the Lisbon Strategy and, if it is possible, this one to be more specific and more strictly applied. On March 3, 2010 President Barroso presented his proposal for a new development strategy until 2020 in the EP. The new strategy called, "Europe 2020", should focus on reducing unemployment, better coordination of economic policies and strengthening economic management...
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...reveal that the US market shrinkage in terms of overall company net sales percentage coincided with the increase in international sales and direct-to-consumer sales and the overall company net sales percentage over the same time period. Since the economic downturn in the US economy in 2008 the disposable income for Abercrombie and Fitch clients appeared to decrease. Additionally individuals were utilizing disposable income for other items such as technology, cell phones and other gadgets. These two items appeared to be the major causes of the decreased company percentage in net sales of Abercrombie and Fitch in the US. During the same two year period the international stores and direct-to-consumer net sales increased dramatically. This was an increase of 342% for international stores and 190% for direct-to-consumer sales over the same two year period. Abercrombie and Fitch have identified that international expansion is the key to the company’s success. The case study evaluates the economic situation within the European union and its effects on the global economy and identifies the impacts on the retail industry risks, specifically for Abercrombie and Fitch....
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...Ryanair PESTLE Analysis PESTLE is the acronym for political, environmental, social, technological, legal and environmental, and this tool, devoted to carry out analysis considering the external influences to an organisation’s activity, is of fundamental importance to properly develop a reliable strategy. The political aspect of this tool considers the possible political influence on the strategy pursued by the organisation. For Ryanair this aspect has represented a considerable advantage, in that the European Union is a completely stable political region and the EU integration has allowed the carrier to expand its activity and routes. On the other hand of it, the airline is affected by the decisions posed by other political organisations like the OPEC, the organisation that unite the oil producer countries and that decide on the oil costs, determining its output quantity, distribution and global supply chain. The incredibly high cost of fuel has strongly affected Ryanair revenues, showing how the industry is particular sensitive to oil cost fluctuation. The social environment is currently mainly characterised by demographic trends, particularly the ageing population and by changing consumers preferences, which are quite difficult to predict and are very much linked to the price of the service. The ageing population factor is likely to impact the travel industry in the next decade and to cause a shift in land transport, easier to access, to use and allowing movements from...
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...economy. | |d. |All of the above. | ANS: D AACSB Analytic, Strategy PTS: 1 2. Globalization is |a. |The trend of businesses expanding beyond their domestic boundaries. | |b. |Increasing average temperature over the globe. | |c. |The increased use of global satellite communication systems. | |d. |A strategy of developing unique products for each nation in the world. | ANS: A AACSB Reflective thinking, Environmental influence PTS: 1 3. Which of the following would not be considered a basic source of globalization? |a. |Similar customer needs | |b. |Falling of trade barriers | |c. |Advances in communication technology | |d. |Differentiation among countries...
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...Business Environment TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 1 TASK 1 1 1.1 Purpose of different types of the organizations 1 1.2 Key stakeholders of the British Airways 2 1.3 Responsibilities of the organization and strategies to meet them 3 2.1 Economic system and allocation of resources 4 2.2 Impact of fiscal and monetary policies on the British Airways 4 2.3 Impact on regulatory and competition policies on the BA 5 TASK 2 7 3.1 Role of the market structure of the airline industry 7 3.2 Role of market forces in shaping the organization shape 7 3.3 Impact of the business and cultural environment on BA enterprise 8 4.1 Significance of the International trade for the BA organization 8 4.2 Analysis the impact of the global factors on BA 9 4.3 Impact of polices on the European Union on the BA 9 CONCLUSION 9 REFERENCES 11 INTRODUCTION British Airways is a multinational airline of the UK and it is the second largest firm in the world which carries highest number of passengers from one destination to other. It was established by the United Kingdom government in 1972 but after facing losses in 1987, it converted into private sector organization and now provides various services like carriage of freight and auxiliary service in compatible price etc. The research report explored the business environment of British Airways and evaluates the impact of competition, monitory and fiscal policies on the performance of the enterprise. Along with this, the project...
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...Executive Summary Activities in the commercial aeroplane manufacturing industry have been outshined by the competition involving the European owned Airbus and the USA owned Boeing. These two companies exist as a duopoly at the top end of the commercial aeroplane manufacturing industry that covers the development of airplanes with a capability of more than 200 persons. Other aeroplane manufacturers also exist but at the lower end of the industry, these smaller firms mainly develop low capacity airplanes that basically convey less than 150 persons. Boeing is a United States of America based company which was founded by William Edward in 1916, the firm has been dominating the industry since its inception while on the other hand Airbus was founded in 1970 by the European Aeronautic and Space Co. (EADS) with its headquarters in Toulouse, France in other to challenge the monopoly thus far enjoyed by Boeing. The trade disputes or disagreements involving the European Union (EU) as well as the United States (US) take precedence in the rivalry or fight between this two firms. Whilst Airbus receives subsidies in the form of launch aid from the European Union while at the same time Boeing is granted right to use the United States military’s Research and development technology. Owing to the soaring operating fund as well as long product break even time associated in the airplane manufacturing industry, it can be reasonably debated or argued that it will be somehow difficult for each of...
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