... mirrors, lighting fixtures, and shelving. The products are made of rust-‐ and chip-‐resistant molded plastic and come in a variety of modern designs and colors. The plastic construction permits VP to produce high quality bathroom accessory at an affordable price. In the middle of the 1990s, John focused the company’s marketing attention on the large home center chain stores: Home Depot, Wal-‐Mart, Sears and so on. Today, more than 80 percent of VP’s sales are to these retail chains, and they account for 95 percent of its...
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...progress restaurant. The key goals was making good decisions to be the best coffee house and international cuisine restaurant in Thailand. The BCC core competencies is coffee and the ideal was to try in find information from books and all around the countries to see how to make coffee. However, with the competitors in Thai premium coffee market: foreign chains, local chains and independent shops, the BBC maintains to excels in pride and profitability in the relationship between the Company and the customers, franchisees, employees, investors and suppliers. The company had a strategy going on to bring new ideas for the menu. BCC branched off with a concept of combining the tastes of East and West. Also, the new products was developed and existing products were improved. A lot of people love Thai food and the ideal was very operational to the customers and that brought the product quality to look different from all the other competitors. Additionally the company needed to consider the relative emphasis of domestic versus international expansion as well as the potential to diversify into other markets. Access to capital and supply chain in fracture were both tied to the growth targets that the firm pursed. The resource of the goals is to help develop knowledge and abilities of the team as professionals. Black Canyon is not just a coffee shop. It’s a full service restaurant serving not only coffee, but a full range of cooked international Thai food. This combination of...
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...It’s not like a book that you can buy from Barnes and Noble or Amazon and then start studying it impromptu. Rather, this is a book that has a legacy and a tradition. One that has a chain, a link, an organic growing connection that increases as every generation goes on. A book that whoever wants to teach it has to have authorization to teach it. That’s because it is about a sacred science that involves a sacred person, and it involves the life and times of the best human being who walked this earth. In our religion, if you want to get to a level where you are transmitting and narrating what this person said, you need to tell the people where you are getting it from. Who are you to quote from the Prophet (صلى الله عليه وسلم )? Therefore let us understand the luminaries; the chains of narrators, those who preserved the hadīth and have an authenticated chain of knowledge to the Prophet (صلى الله عليه وسلم ). This is the reality of the religion. It has been preserved through chains of narrations that are verified through scholars of the highest caliber and were the legends of their times. Shaykh Safi-Rahman Mubarakpuri, a scholar of hadīth and author of “The Sealed Nectar.” had an isnād (chain of narration) to Imam Al-Shawkani (d. 1173H): one of the greatest scholars of hadīth and main nodes of chains of narrations for Ṣaḥīḥ Al-Bukhari. In order to become a node, that scholar has to be way above the rest. Most ijazahs in the world nowadays go through Imam Al-Shawkani. He wrote a...
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...as an important vehicle for customer retention in business markets. Supplier firms under increasing pressure from relentless competitive forces are seeking to retain and grow the share of business from profitable existing customers as a means of finding a way out of downward spiralling price pressures. While a lot has been written in academics about the importance of CVM, several gaps remain on understanding how a large company actually undertakes this journey. Crafting competitive value chains and focusing on streams of competition are also emerging as important agenda for supplier firms since, increasingly, the end customer is no longer willing to pay for inefficiencies in the value chains. In this context, the challenge for a supplier firm in business markets is no longer restricted to getting its own operations in order, but, additionally, it must ensure that multiple interfaces that exist across the entire value chain all the way until the end customer are streamlined so that the value chain is free of value drains and every meaningful opportunity to create value is exploited. In this paper, the authors...
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...Allegory of the Cave “Allegory of the Cave” is a dialog between Socrates and Gloucon in “The Republic” written by Plato. The image of the cave is a universal picture of the human conditions that applies to everyone. It questions the justice created by the society and human nature. The idea conveyed through the dialogue thousands of years ago is so general that examples could be found in today’s society as well. In the beginning Socrates draws the mental image of the cave to his student. The cave is long and dark, but at the opening to the cave you can see some light coming in. In the cave there are humans chained as prisoners facing the wall and who are allowed to turn their heads and look around. They watch the shadows on the wall presented by the puppeteers behind the wall that stands between the burning fire and prisoners. The chained prisoners are happy because they had been fed by the shadows since birth. They have never been outside the cave and they don’t have the desire to go there. However, one prisoner with the help of a wise man like the philosopher liberates himself from the dark cave, sees the puppeteers producing images, and realizes that the shadows in the cave are not real. He also sees the sun which represents the ultimate meaning of life. Since the prisoner must return to the cave after his journey, the truth which he had unveiled is going to change his life. According to the Socrates image of the cave, all humans born in the society are prisoners...
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...Contents Size of the market, growth pattern and evolution of the service…………………………………………...1 Implications for effective marketing………………………………………………………………………2 Environmental Factors……………………………………………………………………………………...4 Industry Players and Competitive Scenario………………………………………………………………..5 Marketing implications for existing players and new entrants…………………………………………….7 Size of the market, growth pattern and evolution of the service The Demand for Indian Tourism is increasing at 10.1% per annum. India will attract 25 million tourists by the year 2015. India currently has 2,00,000 hotel rooms spread across various hotel categories yet has a shortage of 1,00,00 rooms. |Hotel Category |No. of hotels |No. of rooms | |5 star /deluxe |165 |43965 | |4 star |134 |20770 | |3 star |505 |30100 | |2 star |495 |22950 | |1 star |260 |10900 | |Heritage |70 |4200 | |Uncategorized |7078 | | |Total |8707 |132885 | |Restaurants |12750 | ...
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...| An Introduction to Cribbing Isomophs, Gaussian Elimination and The Hidden Markov Model | | Abstract While looking into cryptography and the building blocks that make up ciphers and theory, a mix of time and effort has produced concrete methods of cryptanalysis to identify the temporal pattern recognitions and algorithms necessary to decrypt cipher-text back to its plaintext root. This paper will look at the process of cribbing isomorphs to reveal the plaintext message, Gaussian Elimination and the process of back substitution, and the Hidden Markov Model to view visible output to that which was once hidden. Table of Contents Introduction 2 Cribbing Isomorphs 3 The Hidden Markov Model 4 Gaussian Elimination 5 Conclusion 6 Introduction In any cryptanalysts toolbox, there are a number of methods at their dispense which can aid in the deciphering of crypto-text messages back into their native plaintext message. Since the dawn of man, ways have been invented to hide secret information in an attempt to keep secret an intent, hide a plan, cover up a bad deed or whisper softly over distances. Encryption has proven the means to get this data over a medium and ensure that the integrity of the message arrives intact. Many times this information is intercepted and then the deciphering process begins. By knowing a certain amount about a message, cryptanalysts are able to piece the remaining message together by using cribbing, algorithms and back substitution...
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...Prohibition Timeline& Facts • 1920: The manufacture, sale, and transportation of liquor (more than 0.5% alcohol by volumn) was made illegal via the 18th Amendment to the Constitution • Ends in 1933 • Owning any item designed to manufacture alcohol was illegal and it set specific fines and jail sentences for violating Prohibition. • Loophole: nothing about the act included DRINKING alcohol • Loophole: Since Prohibition went into effect a full year after the 18th Amendment's ratification, many people bought cases of then- legal alcohol and stored them for personal use . • Loophole: Alcohol consumption was ok if it was prescribed by a doctor. Needless to say, large numbers of new prescriptions were written for alcohol. * Stockmarket crash changes public opinion of alcohol consumption because legal manufacturing would create jobs The Gibson Girl The Gibson Girl was tall, slender, and full-chested. She had an exaggerated S-curve torso hape achieved by wearing a corset. Her neck was thin and her hair piled high upon her head, with curls framing her face. Wigs& Surrealism: Surrealist headwear wasn’t limited to hats. Wigs played a major role in the movement. Elsa Schiaparelli, the surrealist couturiere of the 2me period, was one of the first to make surrealist wigs. She commissioned many of these by Antoine. Robe of Style An alternative silhouette available to women was the Robe de Style, which was inspired by wide-skirted Spanish...
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...This case is an exercise in understanding company financials. There are many criteria to be understood when matching a type of company to the correct financial report. The first approach was to pull out the service companies. They are determined by having no inventory. Then, inventory turnover was reviewed. It could be expected that chain stores, restaurants and grocery stores would have a fairly high turnover. Another characteristic that was assessed was the accounts receivable and collection periods. It was determined that wholesale companies would have a higher collection period than retailers. The first of the service industry matched was the advertising agency with Company E. This was recognized for reasons beyond zero inventories. Because advertising companies usually get paid when the project is complete, they have higher collection times. This type of company also has a higher percent of other assets because this is the category where commissions fall. Another characteristic matching these together is that the payables and receivables are very close, 39 to 37 respectively. This would be likely for an advertising agency as it would be making purchases on the customer’s behalf. The HMO company fits with Company G. Again, there is no inventory. They also have low plant and equipment. They really only need some office space. Because they rely heavily on insurance payments, they have a high collection time. Their accounts receivable are large because they...
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...Crafting And Executive Strategy Assignment 1 Case Study # 6 Dell Inc. In 2008 : Can it overtake Hewlett – Packard as the worldwide leaders in personal computers ? Submitted to : Prof. James Farmer Submitted By : Roshni Patel Student Number : 300686000 Question 1: Dell inc. Began with a ‘winning strategy’. At this time (2012), this strategy is not used to the extent that it was once was and the company is now not the company that it was once. Did Dell’s strategy fails, did the company fail to effectively execute the strategy or did the environment changes around Dell? Evaluate the possibilities. Answer: Dell is a global company that delivers products and services in more than 190 countries and company had given employment to over 4000 employees. The company deals in enterprise computing products, monitors, printers, software and peripherals with a focus on fully integrated improved environmental performance into business. The company had gone through many ups and downs from its inception in 1984 and has to face many challenges and competitors to stay ahead in the market. Dell founded the company with simple vision and business concept that the personal computers could be built and sold directly to consumers which would eliminate the additional cost of intermediaries between the company and consumer and thus reducing the overall cost of the PCs making it cheaper than other PCs in the market. The other advantage was that it reduces the costs and risk associated with...
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...of multiple human activities that have led to environmental issues and concerns such as pollution, ozone layer thinning, global warming etc. Human impact is a serious threat to ecosystem and food chain of Antarctica. In the last few decades, various marine species of Antarctic ecosystem have been brought close to extinction because of human activities in various forms such as pollution from sewage and other contaminants, overfishing and other mixed activities and interference like global climate change caused by human emission of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, ozone layer depletion, global warming etc. This all leads to damage of food web and ecosystem of the Antarctica. Another serious impact of emission of carbon dioxide is ocean acidification, which is serious damage to the marine ecosystem of Antarctica. These activities are the main causes of disturbed environment of marine ecosystem of Antarctica. Another factor contributing to Antarctica's ecosystem disturbance is the commercial aspect of human activities. Human are harvesting krill to feed their animals and fishes which is negatively affecting the ecosystem of Antarctica. It is affecting the volume of krill and other fishes which are important source of food chain of Antarctica. Because of less krill, food chain of Antarctica is getting disturbed. Researches have shown that due to global warming, sea temperate is rising and cause less formation of ice packs during the winters. It is affecting the marine...
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...ECCO A/S – GLOBAL VALUE CHAIN MANAGEMENT | | Report submitted by:Abhas Mangal (GAPR11IT038) | | Contents Executive Summary 3 Company’s Profile 4 PORTER’S FIVE FORCES STRATEGIC ANALYSIS 5 Outcomes of Porter’s Five Forces 5 SWOT ANALYSIS 6 Evaluation of Alternatives 6 Recommended Strategy 7 Executive Summary ECCO, a global manufacturer and a supplier of shoe products, wants to expand into the Chinese market to increase its export to major markets and also increase product sales among Chinese consumers. But many Chinese manufacturers imitated the product design and features of ECCO increasing the intense competition for the company in the Chinese market. Also, ECCO for years has a sole focus on increasing the quality of the shoes manufactured by using its sophisticated in-house “direct injection” technology. But the company cannot only thrive on its quality unless the company’s efforts to ensure quality are not communicated to the consumers. Thus, the company focused less on marketing operations that is evident from its low marketing budgets as compared to its competitors. Also, the most of the products manufactured in four production facilities outside Denmark were distributed through its distribution centre in Tonder, Denmark where only six to nine percent of total production was actually sold. Thus, ECCO became inefficient to fulfil the replenishment orders that had to be delivered within a few days notice. Thus, the main challenge for ECCO is to...
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...The Value Chain Analysis – Support activities and Value Chain System The Value Chain System The firm's value chain links to the value chains of upstream suppliers and downstream buyers. The result is a larger stream of activities known as the value system. The development of a competitive advantage depends not only on the firm-specific value chain, but also on the value system of which the firm is a part. A firm's value chain is part of a larger system that includes the value chains of upstream suppliers and downstream channels and customers. Porter calls this series of value chains the value system, shown conceptually below: The Value System ... | > | Supplier Value Chain | > | Firm Value Chain | > | Channel Value Chain | > | Buyer Value Chain | Linkages exist not only in a firm's value chain, but also between value chains. While a firm exhibiting a high degree of vertical integration is poised to better coordinate upstream and downstream activities, a firm having a lesser degree of vertical integration nonetheless can forge agreements with suppliers and channel partners to achieve better coordination. For example, an auto manufacturer may have its suppliers set up facilities in close proximity in order to minimize transport costs and reduce parts inventories. Clearly, a firm's success in developing and sustaining a competitive advantage depends not only on its own value chain, but on its ability to manage the value system of which it is a...
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...Table of Contents Introduction: 2 Macro-Environment Business Strategy Gap Analysis 8 Industry Environment Business Strategy Gap Analysis 9 Strategy-Capability Gap 9 1. Macro-Environment Analysis 16 2. Industry Analysis 22 2.1 Threat of New Entrants 22 2.2 Bargaining Power of Suppliers 24 2.3 Bargaining Power of Buyers/Customers 25 2.4 Power of Substitutes 26 2.5 Intensity of Industry Rivalry 27 3. Internal Analysis Appendix 29 Introduction: [pic] Taj Hotels, Resorts and Palaces operates under the parent company Indian Hotels Corporation Limited. They have been operating for 107 years, and were positioned as India’s largest hotel chain, with a range of properties for both business and vacation travel market. Owned by the Tata group, Taj maintains a very hierarchical structure, with a senior management team that stems from family connections. The report at hand will evaluate the past and current strategic position of the Taj hotel group, how being under the TATA group umbrella and how this has enabled the brand to grow and develop into the most recognized and luxurious hotel brand within India. Hotel brands Worldwide have been trying to go international, taking the advantage of their brand recognition, economic capabilities and increasing market demands. The Taj hotel group past and current strategies of going international were executed in locations that have an already saturated market or in cities...
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...Since 1994 Hilton acquired all of Bally Entertainment, making the largest gaming company in the world. In 1997 they founded an alliance with Ladbroke Group PLC in (now Hilton Group, owner of Hilton International and the rights to the Hilton name outside the US) to unify the Hilton brand worldwide. With a downturn in the gaming industry translating into sluggish results in Hilton’s gaming segment, the company spun off its gaming interests as Park Place Entertainment. In 1999 Hilton made a massive acquisition with the $3.7 billion purchase of Promus Hotel Corp. The following year Hilton sold its flamingo Casino-Kansas City, a remaining casino property left over from the Park Place spin off, to Isle of Capri Casinos for $33.5 million. In 2001 it sold 56 of its leases and management contracts to RFS Hotel Investors for a for about $60 million. In 2002 it unloaded all 41 of its Red Lion hotels (in addition to two Doubletree hotels) on West Coast Hospitality Corporation for about $51 million. SWOT Analysis Strengths Hilton has a number of strengths that are divided into the three main core competencies, hotel operations, managing and franchising operation, and timeshare operations. Hotel Operations: Hilton owns a majority or controlling interest in and operated 65 hotels, representing 33,536 rooms. The owned hotel include some of the Company’s largest and most profitable hotels, including the 1,425 rooms Waldorf-Astoria: the 2,086-room Hilton Hawaiian Village...
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