Criteria of a Good Mission Statement Changing the mission or creating an organization’s first mission statement is a process of gathering ideas and suggestions for the mission and honing them into a short, sharply focused phrase that meets specific criteria. An effective mission statement clearly defines who the customer is and what services and products the business intends to provide. It also serves as a guide for day-to-day operations and as the foundation for future decision-making. The following
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airline offered six daily roundtrip flights between Dallas and San Antonio, and twelve daily roundtrip flights between Dallas and Houston. The start of service in June 1971 was accomplished with three 737-200 aircrafts that had been obtained from Boeing on favorable terms, and a fourth aircraft was obtained in September of 1971. The rest of 1971 and 1972 saw operating losses, Southwest turned its first annual profit in 1973, and has done so every year since a record unmatched in the commercial airline
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Malaysia’s 40 Richest T AKING A BREAK FROM AN investor presentation at the Ritz-Carlton in Singapore, AirAsia’s Tony Fernandes, sporting his trademark red baseball cap, flips through his company’s 140-page annual report. He pauses on 2 of the 16 ads, one from AIG and one from General Electric. “We’re the only company in the world putting ads in our annual report,” Proletariat Capitalist TONY FERNANDES revolutionized Asia’s airline industry by introducing the region’s first low-cost carrier
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Fundamentals of Project Management Third Edition This page intentionally left blank Fundamentals of Project Management Third Edition JAMES P. LEWIS American Management Association New York • Atlanta • Brussels • Chicago • Mexico City • San Francisco Shanghai • Tokyo • Toronto • Washington, D.C. Special discounts on bulk quantities of AMACOM books are available to corporations, professional associations, and other organizations. For details, contact Special Sales Department, AMACOM
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assets over as many units as possible. In addition, managers have traditionally felt that an important part of their job is to keep everyone busy on the theory that idleness waste money. These traditional views often aided and abetted by traditional management practices. Just-in-time (JIT) is an inventory strategy that strives to improve a business's return on investment by reducing in-process inventory and associated carrying costs. To meet JIT objectives, the process relies on signals between different
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Case Study Related to Business Malaysia Airlines (MAS)Facing Challenges in the New Millennium M. Sadiq Sohail, Ph. D• King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals College of Industrial Management Department of Management & Marketing P.O. Box 210, Dhahran-31261 Saudi Arabia E- mail: ssohail@kfupm.edu.sa sadiqsohail@hotmail.com Tel: + 966 3 8601764 Fax: + 9663 8602544 • 1. Formerly at Monash University Malaysia. The author is thankful to Ms. Marianne Visvalingam and Ridhi Jain, both undergraduate
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Strategic Management Name Course Tutor Date Executive Summary These have been unstable times for the Australian airline industry. It has been faced with a marked decline in global tourism after the September 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States. Recently, there has been traffic loss which is attributed to the war in Iraq and severs acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) occurrences in parts of Canada and Asia. In addition, to this mayhem the industry has gone through main structural
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substantial size will usually hire a site location consultant to perform the research on new locations. If the company doesn’t use a consultant, it will assign lead duties to one of its divisions, usually real estate or finance. In either case, a management team will coordinate with the consultant or internal lead, providing input about what the company needs, from operations, sales, and other departments. The company—let’s call it Acme Widget—says to the consultant: to make widgets, we need a location
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1.0 Introduction AirAsia originally was founded by government and on 2 December 2001 was bought by Tony Fernandes. AirAsia was established in year 1993. AirAsia has travel around the earth and ascend to become the world’s best in year 2001. AirAsia continues to spread out the way for low-cost aviation through the innovation, efficient and passionate approach to business with a route a network that extent through over 20 countries. There are some companies which link with AirAsia such as AirAsia
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1.0 Introduction AirAsia originally was founded by government and on 2 December 2001 was bought by Tony Fernandes. AirAsia was established in year 1993. AirAsia has travel around the earth and ascend to become the world’s best in year 2001. AirAsia continues to spread out the way for low-cost aviation through the innovation, efficient and passionate approach to business with a route a network that extent through over 20 countries. There are some companies which link with AirAsia such as AirAsia
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