Business Report on Alibaba Name: Xiya Chen Group:IBM-E2 Subject: Business & Management Executive Summary This report is based on the business environment analysis to identify key factor for Alibaba. From ratio analysis, it is found that financial performance of Alibaba is decreased in last two years due to decline in profitability and management efficiency. It is also identified from PESTEL analysis that political, social and legal environment of China is supportive for Alibaba, but
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Importance of environmental analysis Introduction No single organization can exist in a vacuum. For a successful business operation, an organisation needs to interact with various other actors and players around it. These may range from political institutions to other business and financial institutions. These institutions are called environment of an organisation. In this assignment, we would try to illustrate the importance of environmental analysis for a business organisation. The conceptualisation
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scanning assists businesses in providing information from internal and external environments to the executives so measures can be taken to take advantage of the information and succeed. SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats) analysis is a key element of environmental scanning process which provides detailed information for the organization that can assist in growth and profits. Environmental scanning and SWOT analysis and how organizations use these tools to succeed and grow will be discussed
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the increasingly complex business environment in which organisations operate, characterised by change, uncertainty and escalating competition, the disciplines of strategy and leadership have become critical to successful organisational performance. The aim of this segment is to link the knowledge of management and financial accounting to the concepts of strategy and leadership. Accountants use a variety of technical information to make decisions for the future of the business within an ethical framework
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A gap analysis is performed to compare a strategy with the external environment and the internal environment, to see if there are any inconsistencies between the strategy and the environment. Therefore, the gap analysis is usually done by an organisation rather than an industry. So, for example, if Officeworks has the strategy of pursuing growth by being the best and cheapest supplier of office needs to the small business and home markets in Australia, then their gap analysis would be done to
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1. Introduction : No Business can run in vacant place so they need environment to operate the business. Environment may be the internal or external. Internal environment means the inside the organization with employees, management, organizational culture etc. on the other hand external environment is beyond the internal environment. It is consist micro and macro environment where, marketing environment is composed all the outside factor which directly or indirectly affects in our organization
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desired to be the franchisee of one of the leading restaurant in U S A and she wants to operate it in her mother land. Sharmin Rodrigo is a well educated woman and she is successful business woman because she could build the leading business empire with in decade in her country. Mingo Group is a well diversified business. Once the negotiation got successful she invested million of rupees to secure the franchise with McDew which operates the renowned fast food chain in more than 130 countries with over
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Introduction1 Extract Overview1 Discourse Analysis………………………………………………………………………………………………….2 Alternative Discourse…………………………………………………………………………………………….3 Conclusion…………………………………………………………………………………………………………..4 1.1 Introduction Discourse analysis is both an old and a new discipline. Its origins can be traced back to the study of language, public speech, and literature more than 2000 years ago. (Schiffrin, 2001) Much of the structural analysis of the term can be said to have resulted from
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Vol. LXIV No. 1/2012 24 - 34 Strategic Environmental Scanning and Organization Performance in a Competitive Business Environment Bayode O. Babatunde*, Adebola O. Adebisi** * Department of Business Administration, College of Management and Social Sciences, Osun State University, P.M.B 2008, Okuku Campus , Osun State, Nigeria e-mail: bayoogoga@yahoo.com ** Department of Business Administration, Federal Polytechnic Ado -Ekiti, Ekiti State, Nigeria e-mail: adebisiadebola@yahoo.com Abstract
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A SWOT Analysis view of the software development industry Georgios Kormaris Department of Information and Computing Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands gkormari@cs.uu.nl WWW home page: http://www.cs.uu.nl/ Introduction I n the past twenty to thirty years many changes and developments have taken place in the software industry which started off during the 1960s mainly in the United States of America and experienced a revolutionary boom since the 1980s, Steinmueller
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