...Memo To: Senior Management From: Portfolio Management Team Date: September 27, 2011 Re: SBU Proposal Industry Background Ford Motors Corporation was started by Henry Ford. Born in Wayne County, Michigan, in an area that later became Dearborn, on July 30, 1863, Henry Ford was the oldest of six children. In April 1888, Ford married Clara Bryant, a local girl and the foster child of—like Henry—Irish immigrant farmers. In 1893, his only child, Edsel, was born. Success soon came to him as he took a position in 1891 as an engineer at the Edison Illuminating Company and fairly quickly climbed the ranks. With his love for the outdoors and rural values, Ford might have easily remained in agriculture but something even stronger pulled at Ford’s imagination: mechanics, machinery, and understanding how things worked and what new possibilities lay in store. In the 1980’s, he focused particularly on internal combustion engines. Henry Ford called his first vehicle the Quadricycle. It attracted enough financial backing for Ford to leave his engineer position at Edison Illuminating and helped found the Detroit Automobile Company in 1899. The company faltered for a variety of reasons, and in 1901 Ford left to pursue his own work again. Later that year, the Henry Ford Company was born, but Henry Ford himself stayed with it only a few months. He left in early 1902 to devote more time to refining his vehicles. Ford recognized that with the right techniques, cars could be made affordable...
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...under the Financial and Distribution Services Division of DEPARTMENT. The key responsibilities of the Funds Department is to facilitate the collection of sales amounts due from Travel Agents, and settling of the funds due to Airlines, this process is done through the Hinge Bank Account while ensuring the funds of the Airlines are safeguarded against any risk. The business unit is comprised of a Central Team in XXXX, managing the coordination and development of the process, combined with a Regional Team responsible for execution of the daily operations. The development of the strategy map, allows the Funds department to address the following areas: ➢ Identification and Alignment of the Funds objectives with the “DEPARTMENT Strategic House” and Vision. ➢ Communication Tool to allow the stakeholders to understand the key areas the department are focusing on. ➢ Identifying the cause and effects of implementing certain processes and strategies, and how this would contribute to driving the organizational objectives. [pic] [pic] Learning and Growth Perspective People, Performance & Development: ➢ One of the key objectives of DEPARTMENT is to deliver its mission, by making the organization a great place to work through living and upholding its values on an everyday basis. o Ensure the staff are well trained: The Funds Teams need to be well trained. The ability to create a “teach and learn” culture among the team. o...
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...corporate jets have become history; and the list goes on. As part of that belt-tightening, some companies have begun to rethink their strategic off-sites. Instead of flying executives from around the world to an expensive three-day offsite location, why not just conduct everything virtually? The problem, though, has been that many companies have been trying to use videoconferencing, virtual reality technologies, and other tools to try to replicate physical off-sites. One idea was to encourage spontaneous conversations by simulating a “virtual cocktail hour. ” Wrong! The use of virtual technologies to replicate traditional physical off-sites misses a huge opportunity. Doing so results in a “poor man’s” version of the real thing, like online training courses that consist of nothing more than a video recording of an instructor followed by a test. Instead, companies need to be much smarter about how they conduct virtual off-sites. They need to leverage online’s unique characteristics to push beyond what’s possible in a physical setting and truly transform the process. Interviews with dozens of experts resulted in the following methodology, dubbed the virt-site, to vastly improve the process and obtain honest feedback, invaluable pushback and, eventually, true buy-in from the entire organization. To begin, consider why companies have strategic off-sites in the first place. The overall goal is to figure out the best strategy for a business, a process that can be broken into four...
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...MGT600-1205A-03: Business Research for Decision Making Unit 1 IP Dr. Anthony Matias MGT600-1205A-03 Christine Blewett Abstract This paper will show the differences and similarities between formal research and a business proposal. After looking at different findings, the differences between both concepts exceed the similarities. It will then look at different studies done by many researchers to support the Hypothesis that Organizational Learning is indeed a predictor of effective strategic management. This paper will present how organizational learning can help managers with their strategic thinking to better execute goals and tasks. In the world today, we are surrounded by millions of businesses. We rely on these businesses for many of our essential needs. They provide us with food, clothes, entertainment and so much more. So, when problems occur in a business, it does not only affect the company itself but us as well. It is crucial that businesses run smoothly, and those who are in command know of solutions when certain problems arise to avoid negative outcomes. Those in charge are often called Business Manager’s. Business manager's come across problems on a day to day basis, whether big or small, managers must resolve these problems by making the right decision(Uma Sekaran, 2010, p. 2). Depending on the dilemma, decisions and solutions can be quite difficult to come up with so a process to make this task easier can be extremely helpful to the manager. Also...
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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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...Keystone Business Support Company Ltd. ABOUT US Keystone is a professional services company with management and administrative staff headquartered in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The company provides comprehensive business solutions to private businesses, financial institutions, investors, bilateral and multilateral institutions. A special strength of Keystone lies in its ability to help prepare for and implement energy sector projects both with regards to conventional and nonconventional energy sources. Keystone is also particularly strong in the areas of financial modeling and conducting legal and technical due diligence. These strengths are applicable in a wide variety of fields and we are constantly branching out to new areas to expand our product offering. Keystone has a global network of expert consultants across major cities including Boston, Delhi, Dubai, Hong Kong, London, New York, San Francisco, Singapore, Sydney, and Washington DC. Keystone is continually expanding to other major cities as its business grows. OUR APPROACH Keystone’s Project Teams pair international experts with local talent to devise Global Best Practice Solutions tailored to the specific country context. This also allows us to offer a high international quality service locally. Our first and foremost goal is to craft concrete and actionable steps for our clients that deliver results. OUR STRENGTHS Expertise : Keystone draws its strength from its diverse team of international experts. The company...
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...Research Proposal Title An investigation into the strategies for growth of black owned Small to Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in rural South African communities. A research proposal submitted in fulfilment of the Master’s degree in Business Management (Marketing) 98582. Supervisor: To be advised Year: 2016 By Mr D. Zvandasara M.Com Business Management Marketing 98582 – MKT (i) TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE 1. Introduction 1 2. Literature review 2-3 3. Problem statement 4 4. Expected contribution of study 5 5. Research Methodology 6 6. Availability of Data 7 7. List of references 8-9 8. Reasons why I am interested in the proposed research topic 10 (ii) 1. Introduction Business growth has been studied by several researchers for many years. Different terminologies have been used by different researchers to define the stages of business growth, but the processes through which each business venture passes remain the same. Most researchers agree that each enterprise has to go through the normal business cycle which is to start (introduction), then grow while facing various challenges and crises, and finally mature and decline. There are many factors which will contribute to an enterprise's success. There are many pointers also, which will allow an enterprise to move from one stage to another. There are two sets of thoughts prevailing among researchers;...
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...Milton Jones Research Proposal Paper STR/581 Strategic Planning and Implementation June 21, 2011 Professor: Joseph Fillar Proposal I intend to validate Google’s vision, mission and values statement by expressing the important message indicated in the mission for the company’s success. Google is a company that continue to grow and development thru the innovative process of change. The company has developed a mission statement designed to motive and encourage future success and longevity. Google’s mission is “to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful” (Google.com, 2011). The mission statement is positive, motivational and long-term which definitely gives the company a future to strive towards. The mission statement helps develop the company as a resource that would be used by anyone who was doing research or just asking a question in general. The mission statement allows Google to use any means possible to organize information. This means the company is not limited to a certain amount of searches or internet usage. The company goal is to “to organize the world’s information” and become “universally accessible” (Google Website, 2011). This goal gives the mission statement direction and flexibility as it does not specify the means, leaving penalty room to speculate how much the company will produce. However, the worlds information could never be made searchable or categorized because some data is private and other...
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...Senior Management Recruitment Click Link Below To Buy: http://hwaid.com/shop/senior-management-recruitment/ Objective of the assignment: The objective of this assignment is to allow you to demonstrate your knowledge of the steps required to recruit and staff for an important segment of the workplace and to demonstrate your strategic skills to the CEO. You will share some of the essential strategic and administrative steps for this important function of Human Resources and will include metrics for which to evaluate the recruitment and selection approach that will be implemented. The situation: Suppose that you are the new HR Director at HSS (the case study presented in our Course Resources under modules) and you have already made a presentation to the CEO and the Board of Directors on the need for HR planning and and enhanced strategic role that HR must play in the organization. After that presentation, and having read the research on managing human resources strategically that you have presented (assignment 2 literature review), the CEO confides that she has been thinking about how the senior staff in the organization are recruited and selected. As a result, she has asked you to propose new recruitment and selection methods for the senior level employees. Deliverable: The CEO's directive to you is to prepare a short (approximately five-page double spaced) proposal that includes at the least: 1. A cover memo to the CEO providing an overview of the task...
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...Emory University Portfolio Management Plan Contents Emory University Background 4 Strategic Plan 6 Strategic Capacity Plan 7 Portfolio Management Process 7 Project Selection Criteria 8 Program Management Plan 9 Conflict Resolution Plan 11 Change Management Plan (CMP) 13 Resource Utilization Plan 16 References 18 Appendix A 19 Emory University Background Emory University was founded by an original charter that started the school in Oxford, GA, Newton County on December 10, 1836. It was hand-written on two pieces of notebook paper, front and back. By 1914, the Methodist Church was looking to create a university in the South, and Emory College was looking to expand. Asa Candler, founder of The Coca-Cola Company, wrote the "million-dollar letter" to offer seed money, and he sweetened the deal by donating land in Atlanta. Emory University received a DeKalb County charter to build at its present location in 1915. The soft drink company president's brother was Emory alumnus and former president, Methodist Bishop Warren Candler, who returned to serve as its first chancellor on the new campus. The Atlanta-based Coca-Cola Company has given rise to family fortunes for the Candlers, the Woodruffs, the Goizuetas and others who have been extraordinarily generous to Emory. The philanthropy of these and other donors has enabled Emory's growth and empowered its ambition to become one of the nation's leading universities. It's unofficially considered poor school...
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...Leadership Styles and School Effectiveness Labels: Change Management Research Proposals, Leadership Research Proposals, Strategic Management Research Proposals, Travel Research Proposals Introduction The human mind is like a mine bestowed with billions of innovative seeds, and every one of those seeds can grow a fruitful tree of new inventions. At home, the education of a newly born child starts from the lap of a mother, for whom it is an obligatory privilege to look after her child. Education starting in the dark-age has been transformed as it has passed from mind to mind and race to race, based on spiritually traditional ways of learning, observations, and experiences. The acquisition of knowledge began with the informal learning process at home to formal learning in institutions or schools. In this way, knowledge was progressively traveling down different paths and in different ways through human minds. In recent years, the advent of new technologies from photocopying machines to computer programs, optical scanners, and telecommunication networks has contributed to knowledge transformation. Moreover, today, the dominance of digital technologies and distorted media information has set the stage for the human mind to be idle. It can be thought that the idleness of mind is not due to insufficient or a lack of information and ideas for knowledge development but rather the inevitability of creating multiple choices and overloading us with information. Here, the ramifications...
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...Table of Contents 1.0. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 2 2.0. BUSINESS MISSION VISSION AND STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES 5 2.1. Company Mission and Vision 5 2.2. Goals 5 2.3. Core competence/sustainable competitive advantage 6 3.0. ANALYSIS OF THE BUSINESS INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENT 7 3.1. Micro Environment (C3SPM ) 7 3.2. Macro Environment (SLEPT) 12 4.0. KEY CRITICAL SUCCESS FACTORS 15 5.0. SWOT 17 6.0. BASIC STRATEGIC THRUST 23 6.1. Proposal 1: Innovation 25 6.2. Proposal 2: Differentiation 26 6.3. Proposal 3: Focus 27 6.4. Proposal 4: Synergy 28 6.5. Proposal 5: Branding 29 7.0. MARKETING GOALS 30 7.1. BMW 3 Series Sales 30 7.2. BMW 3 Series Life Cycle 30 8.0. PRODUCT-MARKET INVESTMENT STRATEGIES 31 8.1. Ansoff’s Product- Market growth strategies 31 8.2. Target market selected and why? 31 9.0. STRATEGIC MARKET MIX (Medium Term 3-5years) 32 9.1. Product 32 9.2. Price 33 9.3. Place 34 9.4. Promotion 36 10.0. SALES FORCAST AND FINANCIAL PROJECTIONS 37 11.0. GANTH CHART 39 12.0. REFRENCE 39 13.0. APENDIX 40 1.0. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This report takes its starting point in the evaluation of the BMW Group through a strategic Market analysis of its best selling model the BMW 3 Series. The outlook obtained from the evaluation is used to create a strategic market plan for the BMW 3 Series. The analysis was divided into two parts: External and internal. The external analysis started with outlining the macro environment which was described...
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...Susan Walsh Sanderson Lally School of Management Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy, New York 12180 Phone: 518-276-2933 Fax: 518-276-8661 Email:sandes@rpi.edu May, 2008 CURRENT POSITION ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR (with tenure). School of Management Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Affiliate of Sloan Foundation Industry Studies Centers Major Interests: • Innovation Management • Product Design, Marketing and Brand Management • Innovative Teaching Approaches (Multimedia Enhanced on campus and Distance Learning) AWARDS 1995 Boeing Outstanding Educator Award Hesburg Award Team (for Educational Innovation) In 1995, I was a co-recipient of the Boeing Outstanding Educator Award and a member of the team receiving the Hesburg Award for Educational Innovation TEACHING Teaching Role. My recent teaching has been in Rensselaer’s resident MBA program (both full and parttime), Professional and Distance Education Program and undergraduate programs. My research and teaching have made important contributions to efforts to build the marketing and management and technology curricula in the School of Management at Rensselaer and at other universities who have adopted our teaching materials. As a pioneer in interactive leaning material on product development and manufacturing, I have developed several interactive multimedia cases and collaborated on the development of simulations designed to teach marketing principles and bridge management and engineering disciplines. The simulations teach marketing...
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...Firm Research Donna Wright Strayer University Business Strategies and Proposals BUS 505 Dr. Evangeline Jefferson April 20, 2013 Firm Research Introduction The purpose of this paper is to examine Firm Research. In developing this paper concepts will be identified in the areas of describing a small-business line of business (LOB); determining which government procurement opportunity is aligned with the LOB using the Federal Business Opportunities Website; the firm’s current strategies and assessing the strategic success using financial figures or “soft” indicators as the background; providing a SWOT analysis to determine the internal and external factors in servicing the federal government and utilizing a gap analysis in satisfying the expected requirements; and creating an action plan to fulfill the expected requirements based on the gap analysis. According to ("SBA", 2013) the U.S. government is the world's largest buyer of products and services. Purchases by military and civilian installations amount to nearly $200 billion a year, and include everything from complex space vehicles to janitorial services and cancer research. In short, the government buys just about every category of commodity and service available. By law, federal agencies are required to establish contracting goals, such that 23% of all government buys are intended to go to small businesses. In addition, contract goals are established for women-owned businesses, small disadvantaged...
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