...Strategic Financial Analysis The value chain identifies the primary activities and related support activities that create customer value. The value chain provides a deep look at the firm’s cost structure and ability to offer low prices. It reveals the importance a firm places on its activities that could enhance differentiation and higher prices. A company’s value chain demonstrates a comparison, activity-by-activity; of how cost effective and efficient a firm delivers value to its customers. The value chain is used to segregate the firm’s operations into different types of primary and secondary activities to determine the major components of its internal cost structure. Evaluating a value chain can have an impact on the organization’s cost and margins of supplier and direct partners, affecting price to end customers. "The idea of the value chain is based on the process view of organizations, the idea of seeing a manufacturing (or service) organization as a system, made up of subsystems each with inputs, transformation processes and outputs. Inputs, transformation processes, and outputs involve the acquisition and consumption of resources - money, labor, materials, equipment, buildings, land, administration and management. How value chain activities are carried out determines costs and affects profits."—IFM, Cambridge. Benchmarking is critical tool for improving a company’s (own) internal activities that are based on learning how other companies perform them and borrowing...
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...My SDI ANALYSIS: a Written Assignment My SDI Scores: When Things are Going Well (MVS) | I the Face of Relational Conflicts | Col 1 Col 2 Col 3 Col 4 Col 5 Col 6 28 | 45 | 27 | 23 | 29 | 48 | _____________________________________________________________________________________ Part One: Based on what you have learned concerning the SDI and Relationship Awareness Theory, write a one to two-page, double-spaced paper on “How I can use what I have learned from the SDI and my personal strengths to enhance communication with other people, specifically those in my area of work”. Be specific. Don’t talk in “generalities” such as “these tools will help me communicate better.” In my case, I believe that the SDI has allowed me to better understand myself, and why I’ve always considered myself as a leader. But I believe the real power is using this tool to help me better understand others and what makes them do what they do. As a manager I find myself dealing with several people with many differing motivational values. For example, there is one guy in my department who is very assertive and ambitious. He wants to move up in position quickly and is always looking for opportunities to take on more projects that would allow him to show his abilities. He likes to push others around to get his own way and he is also quick to blame others when things go wrong. Then there’s...
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...These have to be calculated using current markets rates to determine if SDI’s performance aligns with the price that the market has valued it at. The methods used to calculate these figures may vary internally and externally given the information used in calculating them. Swan Davis’ performance has fluctuated given the level of competition and unstable profits. Although that may be they have managed keep their investors afloat with steady returns on equity. Their B bonds should be watched more closely since it is priced more than it should be but overall SDI’s capital structure is performing adequately. Introduction As part of a consulting firm you are hired to explain how the market decides the value of its securities in order to make accurate estimates of capital costs for use in capital budgeting. You will be presenting an analysis to Bob Wilkes, the chief...
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...Best practice does not equal best strategy Benchmarking is an important way to improve operational efficiency, but it is not a tool for strategic decision making. When competitors all try to play exactly the same game, declining margins are bound to follow. PHILIPP M. NATTERMANN The McKinsey Quarterly, 2000 Number 2 Best practice. It may be the most readily recognized and widely used of all business management tools. And why shouldn’t it be? To executives, modeling a company’s performance on its best-in-class competitor is an ambitious but attainable aspiration. To investors, the strategy is a guarantee of the soundness of any company that embraces it. And to consultants, it is the tide that lifts every client’s boat. So why is it killing your margins? Everyone who follows business has seen the fat margins of growing young companies attract scores of new entrants, which eventually crowd the field and drive those very margins down. Why would top executives convert this regrettable fact of business life into a creed, especially when doing so simply hastens the endgame for everyone—first mover and Johnny-come-lately alike? Margins tumble as more and more incumbent companies compete for smaller and smaller segments of customers and industry resources They act as they do because they don’t understand that benchmarking is simply an operational tool. Instead, they all want to occupy the point on the strategic landscape that their most successful competitor has staked out.1 Soon...
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...Overview (Leading Products) 6 I. Samsung Overview (Brand Value) Samsung ranked 9th among global companies in 2012 7 I. Samsung Overview (Total 29 Affiliates Companies) The Samsung Group consists of many different business units Electronics Industry Electronics Engineering & Heavy Industry C&T Corporation Engineering Financial Services Life Insurance Fire & Marine Insurance Samsung Card Securities Asset Management Venture Investment Chemical Cheil Industries Inc. Petrochemical Fine Chemicals BP Chemicals Total Other Companies Cheil Worldwide Everland Inc. The Shilla Hotels & Resorts Economics Research Institute S1 Corporation Medical Center BioLogics SDS Heavy Industries Electro-Mechanics Techwin SDI Display Corning Precision Glass Bioeps 7 Affiliates 3 Affiliates 6 Affiliates 5 Affiliates 8 Affiliates 8 I. Samsung Overview (SEC Biz. Division) HME : Health Medical Equipments 9 I. Samsung Overview (SEC Set Business) Electronics (Set Biz) World Leading Consumer Electronics Manufacturer 10 I. Samsung Overview (SEC Component Business) (Component Biz) Electronics Powering Today’s Devices 11 I. Samsung Overview (Contents & Solution Biz) (Contents & Solutions) Electronics Providing the right content & solutions...
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...International Market - Why? Before adventuring into an international market, it is pivotal for a business to establish a successful and stable company in their domestic market. Mull Organic Foods Ltd (MOF Ltd) are a company who have ongoing sales in their domestic market and a company who are growing. To continue this growth, the next step would be to launch into the overseas market. The most obvious reason to do this would be to increase sales. If MOF selects the correct market to expand into, their market will grow alongside their sales. However, this does not necessarily mean they will make profits. If transportation or communication costs become too high, MOF will struggle to make any real profit, which is where the company's analysis of their chosen country must be accurate. Another reason to expand overseas would be to potentially reduce costs. Expenses on things such as resources and labour are far greater in the UK when compared to the likes of China. The initial cost to launch the business in another country could be a daunting figure, however this can easily be reclaimed and turned into profits based upon the savings it would make. MOF would still have to ensure the quality of their product was at a high in order to gain a reputation for themselves. If they continue to grow, it would make sense to use machinery to produce high quality products as opposed to hand crafting. This would reduce labour costs however the price of machinery can also differ depending...
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...Arch Sex Behav (2011) 40:699–712 DOI 10.1007/s10508-010-9671-7 ORIGINAL PAPER Physiological and Subjective Sexual Arousal in Self-Identified Asexual Women Lori A. Brotto • Morag A. Yule Received: 27 October 2009 / Revised: 27 July 2010 / Accepted: 27 July 2010 / Published online: 21 September 2010 Ó Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2010 Abstract Asexuality can be defined as a lifelong lack of sexual attraction. Empirical research on asexuality reveals significantly lower self-reported sexual desire and arousal and lower rates of sexual activity; however, the speculation that there may also be an impaired psychophysiological sexual arousal response has never been tested. The aim of this study was to compare genital (vaginal pulse amplitude; VPA) and subjective sexual arousal in asexual and non-asexual women. Thirty-eight women between the ages of 19 and 55 years (10 heterosexual, 10 bisexual, 11 homosexual, and 7 asexual) viewed neutral and erotic audiovisual stimuli while VPA and self-reported sexual arousal and affect were measured. There were no significant group differences in the increased VPA and self-reported sexual arousal response to the erotic film between the groups. Asexuals showed significantly less positive affect, sensuality-sexual attraction, and self-reported autonomic arousal to the erotic film compared to the other groups; however, there were no group differences in negative affect or anxiety. Genital-subjective sexual arousal concordance was significantly...
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...DIGITAL LIBRARY SERVICES 1.0 Introduction After the past few decades, the new environment of technologies has brought changes to the users and the ways of life. Digital library changes the users all over the globe. Digital library is one of the types of the library. Digital library world constitute variety digital information resources that usually we will found in traditional library include texts, images, audios and videos. Digital libraries have been known as an online library or virtual library or e-library. In other aspect it has its own characteristics that offer high management of the collections. A digital library is understood to have the information stored predominantly in an electronic or digital medium. (Sreenivasulu, 2000). Digital...
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...ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY IN ASIA Research Paper Series No 3 In the Belly of the Beast: Samsung Electronics’ Supply Chain and Workforce in South Korea Jiwon Han, Wol-san Liem, and Yoomi Lee Research Institute for Alternative Workers’ Movements, South Korea In the Belly of the Beast: Samsung Electronics’ Supply Chain and Workforce in South Korea © 2013 Asia Monitor Resource Centre Asia Monitor Resource Centre Flat 7, 9/F, Block A Fuk Keung Industrial Building 66-68 Tong Mi Road Kowloon Hong Kong Tel: (852) 2332-1346 Fax: (852) 2835-5319 Website: www.amrc.org.hk The paper may be reproduced in any non-profit publications; credit is requested. In the Belly of the Beast: Samsung Electronics’ Supply Chain and Workforce in South Korea By Jiwon Han, Wol-san Liem, and Yoomi Lee (Research Institute for Alternative Workers Movements) February 2013 Edited by Asia Monitor Resource Centre Research team: Jiwon Han, Wol-san Liem, and Yoomi Lee The Research Institute for Alternative Workers Movements (RIAWM), Seoul, South Korea, was established in 2010 to contribute to the revitalization of the workers movement in South Korea and beyond. RIAWM is working to critically analyse the conditions workers face amidst the structural crisis of capitalism, and develop concrete policy for workers movement that both improves workers’ lives and strives towards an alternative political-economic system. RIAWM is affiliated to the social movement organization People’s Solidarity for Social Progress, founded in...
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...information seeking strategies in the sector. Main Body In the broadest sense, information is anything that you are capable of perceiving. This can include written communications, spoken communications, photographs, art, and music, nearly anything that is perceivable. Aboyade (1981:6) asserts that "information is a necessary resource for the development of all other resources." Olabisi (2001:2) points out that reliable information is the cornerstone for building the awareness, expertise, and practical strategies necessary to improve the world. In the opinion of Ariyo (1991:18), information reduces the degree of uncertainty in the operating environment of an organization. Information can also be described as materials that have been stored in one manner or another that can educate you to a better understanding of the world of business. Information, then, is “the collection, storage, processing, and dissemination of news, pictures, facts and messages, opinions and comments required in order to understand and react knowledgeably to personal, environmental, national and international conditions, as well as to be in a position to take appropriate decisions.â€(Lundu, 1995) Commerce is the exchange of goods and services from the point of production to the point of consumption to satisfy human wants. It comprises of the trading of something of economic value such as goods, services, or information between two or more entities. When the transaction are done in the light of the above using...
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...Objective The purpose of this report is to conduct an External Environmental analysis influencing UK Fashion retail company Primark. The report reviews Political, environmental, societal, technological and legal factors that could affect the functioning of the retail chain. The analysis is then used to draw a conclusion on opportunities and threats that are faced by the company. Primark - An Overview Launched in 1969 on Mary Street, Dublin as ‘Penny’s’, Primark is an Irish retailer with 254 stores across Ireland, United Kingdom, Austria, Belgium, Germany, The Netherlands, Spain & Portugal. Headquartered in Dublin, the company is a subsidiary of Associated British Foods Plc. Their product categories include ladies wear, menswear, children’s wear, lingerie, fashion accessories, cosmetics and home products. Primarily the company’s merchandize is made specifically for its own brands, but they also stocks certain products from other well known brands like Haribo sweets, Disney, Warner Brothers & Nivea. Primark’s business model includes faster turnaround of product lines at cheap prices. It prides itself as a brand that sells ‘Fast Fashion’ and targets its product towards customers who are looking for bargain shopping. Its apparel product lines typically showcase simple fabrics and designs in popular sizes. Primark launches it stores in high street locations and the all product categories/lines are stocked in bulk at each location. Its main market competitors include...
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...Next is the Paternity Testing, which is the most veracious form of testing attainable to adjudicate the origin. Third is, the MIA Soldiers, another application that deals with the historical divisions and identifications. Fourth is, the Inherited Disorder Testing that focuses on finding out inherited disorders in adults, children, and even in many unborn babies. Fifth is, the Personal Identification that will be impossible to remove or forget, hard-and-fast, and distinctive an ID card- part of the individual (Marx,...
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...Understanding team effectiveness Being a member of a team in my baseball career, professional career and within my community organizations has given me an excellent opportunity to learn about myself. One of the most valuable things I learned is that it takes a lot of compromise and respect to have an effective team. Being a member of such a diverse arrangement of teams, has given me the experience to understand that it takes a lot of ingredients and the right chief to make an effective team. However, some key ingredients- if missing- can affect team effectiveness, like; listening, team collaboration, the structure and size and understanding how I work within the team. From a very early age, we are all taught to listen. Listen to our parents, our teachers, our elders and for that matter, anybody that was talking. So why is it as we grow into our professional careers we start to listen to only what we want to hear, and not listen to everything everybody is saying. The Problem of poor listening is so chronic that one author has said “people do not listen the reload” (Tubbs, 2009). I remember running a meeting as President of the local Chamber of Commerce and having a committee member give an idea about how to fix a budget issue. Then about 10 minutes later another committee member offers the same idea to fix the problem. It is extremely annoying that they cannot pay attention to the current discussion. They are talking in a side bar with another committee member talking about...
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...COURSE PROJECT: MANAGING ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE (HRM 587) GUIDED BY: MISS SCHANTA REOAUX-SMITH Name: Manali Shah Student ID: D40000679 ABSTRACT:- The purpose of this project is to deliver information about two different companies and discuss the changes the companies had in last few years. Such information will help us in analysing the changes the company went through which helped the company to grow or which made it go in loss. Also by thorough analysis and detailed review a comparison, the project demands a comparison of the change in two different companies. This way the project will help us to understand the concept of the course “Managing Organizational Changes“ NAME OF THE COMPANIES:- The companies that will be discussed in this project are: 1. Nokia 2. Samsung WHY DO I FIND THIS TOPIC INTERESTING? The project emphasize in learning the organizational changes and analysing the impact they create in the development of their companies. Nokia and Samsung mobiles are well known world-wide. But what I find interesting is what made these companies bigger. Nokia, as we all know was a leading mobile company, has lost its position in the market. Samsung, which was well known as an electronics and home appliance company, catches up with Nokia in the mobile market. So the study of the change these organizations implemented in their company is an interesting thing to learn. And also the study of comparison...
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...Contents 1) Executive summary 2) Current marketing i. market description ii. product review iii. competitive review iv. channels and logistic review 3) SWOT analysis i. strength ii. weakness iii. opportunities iv. threat 4) Marketing strategy 5) Conclusion Executive summary In 1969, Samsung Electronics was founded in South Korea. The company originally manufactured consumer electronic appliances such as TVs, calculators, refrigerators, air conditioners, and washing machines. By 1981, Samsung had produced over 10 million black and white TVs. In 1988 it merged with Samsung Semiconductor & Communications and started what would be a most profitable global marketing campaign by sponsoring the Olympic Games. Forty years later, Samsung Electronics celebrated its 40th anniversary in 2009 and has developed innovative products, adding interactive systems to further enhance consumer experience. Earlier this year In March 2010, to stay ahead of its competitors, Samsung introduced its revolutionary line of three-dimensional TVs (3DTV) at a New York event, partnered with Dreamworksanimation. Company background On March 1, 1938, founding chairman Byung-Chull Lee started a business in Daegu, Korea, focused primarily on trade export, selling dried Korean fish, vegetables, and fruit to Manchuria and Beijing. In little more than a decade, Samsung which means "three stars" in Korean would have its own flour mills and confectionery machines, its...
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