...Cathay Pacific [Case Analysis] Due to substantial deregulation of the airline industry in the 1980s, a highly competitive environment arose for airline carriers. Cathay Pacific, for one, was particularly efficient in making the most of this new environment, and this is largely attributable to how the airline has managed its IT operations. By outsourcing (mainly non-strategic) functions that were not core competencies, for example, they did not only cut down on costs but they also effectively reduced risks. So as the airline continued to grow, it rigorously transitioned from “strictly building and operating to acquiring and managing.” Facilitated by its global linkages, Cathay Pacific now found itself in a better position to identify key suppliers and infrastructure. This new stance allowed the airline to narrow searches down to optimal combinations of suppliers that remained competitive. Although this would later become a hindrance, as newfound partners would hold “partner” statuses that made it difficult for the airline to issue standard requests for pricing, it had an overall significant effect that put the company in a stronger position to compete. Cathay, did however, eventually replace the “smart-sourcing” strategy around 2004, when the new theme of corporate purchasing process was competition. smartsourcing: Under this new strategy, the airline focused on using fewer and longer-term suppliers that consistently demonstrated flexibility and competitiveness...
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...| |Cathay Pacific | Memo To: Edward Nicol, Director of IM From: Anthony Yeung, General Manager of IM CC: Jakob Iverson Date: 2/05/2003 Re: Cathay Pacific Outsourcing Process Edward, Once again, welcome back to Cathay Pacific! I thought I would take time to articulate the current state of Cathay’s outsourcing processes and more importantly present my recommendations to revise our methodology in managing our strategic partners that will enable future success. Understanding we are in a mode to reduce costs to compete in this industry, Cathay has outsourced several key IT functions over the past 5 years, with now 65% of our operating budget being managed outside of Cathay. Our first two major initiatives, dubbed “smartsoucing”, were initiated in April 2007. We outsourced our infrastructure to IBM and our applications to SABRE Airline Solutions. Although these two vendors were not exclusive vendors, it was clear they were definitely preferred! In December 2007, we outsourced our data center that we had built in 1995 to IBM as well. In 2001, we outsourced our desktop environment also to IBM. We followed that up in November 2002, when we outsourced our e-business infrastructure to Hewlett-Packard. Edward, listed below is my assessment of the outsourcing...
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...Over the course of Pacific Northwest history, there have been various cultural expectations that have influenced the encounters between the many groups of peoples living in the Pacific Northwest. The Native Americans, Europeans, Mexican born Spanish, and American people have encountered cultural differences amongst each other for several centuries. First, curiosity was the driving force behind exploration. The New World still had an undiscovered area in the Northwest, the last frontier. The curious minds of expanding nations would send them on several endeavors to stake claim to this unknown portion of the world. According to Weber, the Spanish were the first to reach the Pacific Northwest, preceding all other European powers in exploring the coastlines of Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia (Terra Northwest, 3). In 1493, through Papal donation, Spain staked claim to the west coast for the sole navigation rights to the Eastern Pacific. As Schwantes described, Spain was the preeminent power in the Pacific basin for nearly three centuries after 1493, but concentrated its attention on the Pacific coast south from Mexico and on equatorial trade routes linking its American empire and the Philippines (Schwantes, 42). Exploratory voyages were deployed on occasion over the next three hundred years. During this time Juan de Fuca discovered the Strait of Juan de Fuca in 1592 and later Juan Perez would explore and claim the Pacific Northwest for Spain in 1774—where the Nootka Sound...
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... especially football. I have been exposed to the Pacific Islander people. Whether I was socializing with them throughout my childhood schooling or playing with and/or against Pacific Islanders throughout my athletic career, the exposure that occurred between myself and Pacific Islander’s shaped my personal perspective on who Pacific Islanders are. In my perspective Pacific Islanders are: physically large, extremely family oriented, and very protective of their cultural ideals. Naturally I always saw Pacific Islanders as very intimidating because of their massive physical stature. This more than likely because the majority of my engagements with Pacific Island people was on a football field. The majority of Pacific Islanders that played football with or against me were very big and dominated the players that were more near the size of average high school kids. The Pacific Islander players were in most cases always the biggest players on the field. Pacific Islanders were taller, heavier, and stronger than the majority of the players they played with or against. It also seemed as if the best teams in the state always had the most Pacific Islander players, looking back on this claim it’s hard to believe that there was an authentic correlation between the amount of Pacific Islander players and the success of a team. I believe that my experiences with being extremely involved in sports and the relationships that I had with Pacific Islanders led to these beliefs in my perspective...
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...Alyssa LaFace ARTE 220 3/9/16 Totems of the Pacific Northwest Totems are carved Redwood Cedar trees and used in the Potlatch ceremonies of families of the Pacific Northwest. Paint for the totems comes from pigments in nature, and like the carved animals, colors are symbolic as well. The natural ingredients mixed with oil from salmon eggs created easy application. Totems were carved to represent the emblem of the family as a reminder of its history. A totem is carved and placed to honor its ancestors, the clan’s standings, rights and accomplishments, to record as memorable ceremony or record a spiritual experience. A totem pole is a symbol of the qualities, experiences, and exploits of the clan. The red Earth Museum states, “The totem carvings tells a story, revealed only if one knows the meaning assigned to various animals, fish, birds and designs. There were a number of reasons why a particular figure or design was chosen by a chan. The connection between the clan and the various figured carved into the pole may have been as a result a special gift from the animal, fish, or bird spirits.” Northwest Symbol states, “Understanding the symbolism and stories hidden within the totem pole is more than a simple exercise in learning the attributed meanings of the figures. Each crest or symbol has its own story and is carefully arranged beginning at the bottom. The viewer will recognize the design of each animal depicted, but in order to tell the story, you need to know the story or...
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...UNION PACIFIC INTRODUCTION In any industry a company must have a Sustained Competitive Advantage (SCA), something that differentiates them from their competition. When determining what a companies SCA is, we need to consider what it is that they do that is rare, valuable, non-substitutable and costly to imitate. In evaluating Union Pacific (UP) we were able to establish that their SCA was in their operations. Since there are limited competitors railroad operations are considered rare and without a doubt one of the most if not the most valuable part of running a successful railroad. In this industry there is no substitute for having an efficient and profitable operations and the reason there is limited competition is because it is very costly to imitate. When you put it all together having well running operation in place allows you to be successful; it allows you to make timely deliveries, increase volume, lower terminal time, repairs and most importantly make a profit. HISTORY UP was founded in 1862 and in that same year President Abraham Lincoln signed the Pacific Railroad Act, which chose UP as one of two companies to construct the first transcontinental railroad. UP was to build westward up the Platte River Valley from Omaha, Nebraska and the Central Pacific (CP) Railroad of California was to build eastward from Sacramento, the two met in Promontory Summit, Utah and upon completion in 1869 commemorated the...
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...Pacific Island Countries (PICs) lie in an area known as the "Pacific Ring of Fire." Around 91% of the world's earthquakes occur within the Pacific Ring of Fire. This makes PICs extremely vulnerable to earthquakes and tsunamis. Furthermore information technology has played a major part in assisting the authorizes in helping , alert the people about natural disasters, organizing people during the natural disaster and assisting authorities and people in the disaster rehabilitation and recovery. To begin with, alerting people about natural disaster. As the information and communication technologies helps with that for example the latest disaster that occurred in the south pacific the earthquake in the Solomon Islands that was followed by the tsunami. The ICT was used to help inform the people of the south pacific region especially Fiji as the Vodafone and digicel send text massages to everyone’s phone informing about the tsunami. More over the radio and television were giving live coverage and times that certain areas would be affected. Moreover the ICT are used to organize people as they would be informed through the television and radio that which evacuation centers are open and nearby that they can seek shelter during disaster. Also it organize people in way for them not to go to certain areas that are affect badly by the natural disasters and also in which areas there would power and water cuts, so that people are able to store and backup their supplies. Together with it...
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...Pacific Northwest Research Report Essay Do you ever get tired of the hot weather in the south? Do you ever wish that you could have some rain? If so, the Pacific Northwest is for you! The Pacific Northwest is a region of the United States with a diverse geography and damp climate which affects the activities, and food, of those who live there. The geography of the Pacific Northwest affects daily life because of the different landforms and landscapes. For example, the Pacific Northwest is home to the Cascade range, which includes Mount Hood at 11,204 feet in Oregon, Mount Rainier at 14,411 feet in Washington, Mount St Helens at 8,366 feet in Washington, and more. This affects daily life because people will have to live on steep hills instead...
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...funds and supports. They specifically talked about the Pacific Gender Justice Knowledge Exchange and announced their new website which starts a new Pacific Gender Justice Network for Pacific islanders to cooperate and work together on gender justice. The Australian government has agreed to donate more than $20 million tala (currency of Samoa) over ten years. Over fifty percent of this financial aid goes to programs and policies that focus of empowering women and young girls in the Indo-Pacific region. The reason why the Australian government is providing financial aid to these undeveloped pacific islands is because the Australian government believes that when a there is equal rights and opportunities for both men and women that this enables development to progress. They also believe that because there is equal opportunities and rights for both men and women that economically its an advantage for a country to provide the means for this type of environment to upraise because in the long term the economy would grow at a rapid pace then it would if only men were to have these opportunities. It was also mentioned that there would be less corruption when there is equal rights and opportunities among men and women. I think that this program will contribute to the movement of empowering and establishing native islanders in leadership positions within their own islands. In class we have emphasized of importance for Pacific Islanders to reclaim their identify and not only that but...
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...Analysis of Cathay Pacific Airlines General Environment Cathay Pacific was established in 1946 and is now the largest airline company in Hong Kong. It operates both passenger services and cargo services and operates in more than 30 countries throughout Asia, the Pacific, the Middle East, Africa, Europe and North America to more than 80 destinations. From Hong Kong, where its headquarter is based, Cathay operates 36 of their destinations in the Asia-Pacific region. Therefore the general environment in especially Hong Kong and the rest of the Asia-pacific region has an effect on Cathay Pacifics business procedure. The general environment is composed of factors that can have dramatic effects on a firm’s strategy and events and changes in the general environment can he hard to predict and even harder to control (Dess et al. 2012, p.87). The demographic segment of the general environment is the genetic and observable characteristics of a population (Dess et al. 2012, p. 87). Hong Kong’s population was in 2009 7.03 million. About 95% of the population are of Chinese descent. The majority are Taishanese, Chiu Chow, other Cantonese people, and Hakka. The remaining 5% of the population is non-ethnic Chinese people and consists of a South Asian population of Indians, Pakistanis, Neplaese, Vietnamese refugees, Europeans, Americans, Japanese and Koreans. This means that the population of Hong Kong consists of many different nationalities and in addition Hong Kong is one of the most...
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...The first three major eras of the Pacific Northwest show some remarkable changes. What begins with the first people rapidly becomes a barrage of settlers, development and the harvesting of resources. Each period of time in the PNW brings changes in the people, the geography, and the culture. First is the Era of the First People. Scientific theories suggest that man first came to the PNW via land bridges from Russia or perhaps waterways. Some legends suggest a similar nomadic journey following the migrating animals or the work of spirits or Gods who created companions for a lonely human; usually a mother figure. However they came to be, the First People, while split into different geographical and cultural groups, had many things in common. These groups: the Costal, Plateau, and Basin Indians, all used the resources of the PNW to their advantage. For the most part, all depended on hunting and gathering for food and resources. The Basin Indians, with more limited resources, did have to forage for food and resources at times. Salmon was favored heavily for both a food source and in various ceremonies. Each group had domesticated animals: horses, dogs, or sheep. The changes in this era are more focused on the growth of cultures and of population; establishing societies. The Coast Indians were separated geographically from other native peoples. They had their own local forms of society and government involving a very class conscious social structure...
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...The Pacific Northwest is an admirable range, with a discrete climate that is elaborate in an fortune of natural resources. The division allows excellent opportunities to partake the wild salmon and to discover the gray whale, which returns annually to the Washington State coastal region during migration, the feeding and producing season. The gray whale travels 10,000 to 14,000 miles each year to its initial territory along the open waters, including the northwest tip of what is known as Neah Bay. Borded by the Pacific Ocean and featuring steep, unleveled cliffs, green forests, and clean air, Neah Bay is also home to the Makah Nation. The Makah have returned to whale hunting, a tradition that dates back 2,000 years and which, is not supported...
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...(2012) indicated the growth rate of China’s gross domestic product has resulted in a three-year low, a slow growth for industrial production as well as retail sales, contributing a slow growth rate at 4.4% in China's domestic passenger markets. In Lanman, S. and Panckhurst, P., (2012)'s news report, China’s export growth cooled to 9.2 percent in the first half of the year, a 24 percent decrease in the first six months of 2011, the figure reflected declining number in both cargo and passengers carrier for Cathay Pacific and China Southern Airways, accompany with the high jet fuel prices, the future in airlines industry is pessimistic.According to Wallis (2012), China Southern Airlines claimed there is 50% drop in net profit compare to last year, contributed by high jet fuel costs, losses in exchange rate (6.3760 against the dollar) and China’s slowing down economy due to Europe’s austerity measures and government debt burdens. On the other hand, its major rival Cathay Pacific announced billions dollars investment on more fuel efficient and nautical miles aircrafts airbus A350-1000. With better fuel efficiency aircraft and well-tailored flight patterns, Wallis (2012) believes it shall remain its competitive position in the industry.IATA (2012) believes that both the air travel and freight volumes are likely to show slow growth in the coming period due to deepening economic recession and consumer confident. Although the fuel price has a significant...
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...National Geographic Society. “Great Pacific Garbage Patch.” National Geographic Society, National Geographic, 9 Oct. 2012, www.nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/great-pacific-garbage-patch/. The National Geographic has been known of posting many articles and videos about the concern and awareness of the water pollution of the Pacific Ocean. The article that is chosen is about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, the National Geographic has many photo evidence of the harmful effects of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. The article puts in perspective of how serious the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is by using quotes from captains that have sailed by the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and statistics of the mass size. The article will be supporting...
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...Introduction 4 Economic Integration: Definition 5 Background of Free Trade in the South Pacific 6 PICTA 7 PACER 7 Advantages and benefits of Economic Integration 9 Drawbacks of Regional Economic Trade 11 Resolution 15 Conclusion 17 Bibliography 18 Appendices 19 Declaration of Originality We declare that this is our original work and all borrowed works had been cited and referenced. s11061729 Elizabeth Pearl Blakelock s11074679 Ranjeeta Devi s93005349 Mosese Vosarogo Acknowledgement We acknowledge our Instructor Mr Atishwar Pandaram for for the learning, Mr William Kurt of Cost-U-Less for allowing us time to interview him and for the valuable information and also Mr Aslam Janiff of Kundan Singh Supermarket and Andrew Powell Rajendras FoodTown Supermarket for giving their time to attend to us. Introduction In this project, we will attempt to highlight the implications of free trade amongst the south pacific island countries that are under the auspices of the 'The Pacific Islands Forum'. PIF is an inter-governmental organization that aims to enhance cooperation between the independent countries of the Pacific Ocean. Member countries are: Australia, New Zealand, Cook Islands, Fiji, Federated States of Micronesia...
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