of installation at five user sites. The Setting Since the mid-1970's, we have been developing computer-based decision support systems involving the natural gas industry. In 1975 in his Ph.D. dissertation, Robert Brooks developed the first math programming model explicitly to represent all of the interstate natural gas pipelines in a comprehensive nationwide model of the supply, demand, and transportation of natural gas [1]. This served as the basis for forecasting models used by the U.S. Department
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Figure 2.2: foundation of aligned supply chains CHAPTER 2.3: PORTER’S ANALYSIS According to Porter, companies must look for having a superior comparable performance regarding competitors in the same industry, and described that the competitive advantage is to have a profitability level greater than those in the industry on the long run. He also described the cost leadership and the differentiation as the two types of competitive advantage a company can have, depending on the sources on which it
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Wendy’s Analysis Khalid Al-Ajmi Neil Commerce Terrell Matthews Anil K Cheerla MBAD 271: Strategic Management Professor Gary Bojes Table of Contents Executive Summary 3 Background 4 Mission Statement 4 Vision Statement 4 Analysis of Strengths: 5 Strength 1 5 Strength 2 6 Strength 3 7 Analysis of Weaknesses 8 Weakness 1 8 Weakness 2 9 Weakness 3 10 Summary of Strengths and Weaknesses 11 Internal Factors Framework 12 Three Core Elements of Wendy’s / Arby’s Strategy:
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LAMAR UNIVERSITY - COLLEGE OF BUSINESS MGMT5380 - STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT Brad Mayer: Galloway 204 (880-2383); bradley.mayer@lamar.edu Office Hrs: MWF 9:20-10:20 AM (and by appointment) The mission of the College of Business at Lamar University is to provide a quality education to a diverse student population from Southeast Texas and beyond, resulting in well-rounded business professionals who are prepared to meet the challenges of a dynamic global environment while upholding ethical
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Chapter INTRODUCTION 1.1 Livelihood of the majority of the population of the Jammu & Kashmir State revolves around the agriculture and allied sectors. These sectors constitute the mainstay of the State’s economy and contribute nearly 50 per cent to GSDP. Over 70 per cent of the population, of more than 1.25 crores depends, directly or indirectly, on agriculture and its allied sectors. The diversification in the physiographic features and agro-climatic variation at macro- and micro-level, involving
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Call Center used a separate designed-in-house program to track incoming call activity. The technology systems utilized by employees in Mashkin were designed to support general sales activities. None of the software was designed specifically for the needs of their financial divisions (either the mutual fund or the asset management side) and lacked the analytic functionality as well as the collaborative functionality to interface with other systems within Mashkin. This
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logistics in LNG synchromodal transportation networks. Activities / work packages I. LNG supply chains and synchromodal transport networks: providing an identification of markets and demand to serve, economic and sensitivity analyses, definition of logistical requirements and options for synchromodal transportation. II. Multi-modal inventory-routing problems: deriving tools to enable an efficient and effective supply to distribution points in the network through synchromodal operations. III. Direct delivery
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Introduction Entrepreneurship is becoming of vital importance in the economies like Pakistan. Entrepreneurship is strongly related to small medium enterprise (SME), which is considered to be the main developing force of the developing economies market. Previously many economists believed that it is the large firm which contributes in the developing of economies and attracts foreign exchange in the country. But there point of view changed when countries like Taiwan, Japan, and Korea established
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E- Market Orientation as a result of Integrating electronic marketing with market orientation concept Morteza Mashayekhi and Amir Ekhlassi Abstract The aim of this paper is to show the relationship between electronic marketing and market orientation. This paper intends to integrate these concepts and draw a framework for e-market orientation as a new paradigm in business. So it is necessary to introduce both e-marketing and market orientation and review the literature related to
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These tools are widely used by local economic development (LED) practitioners: General tools to help organise and compare data: Time series analysis Growth indexes Composite indexes Benchmarking GIS mapping PEST / trends analysis Tools to help cities understand the structure of their local economy: Sector share analysis Value-added analysis Economic base analysis Location quotient Specialisation index Shift share analysis Input-output analysis Social accounting matrix Cluster mapping Value chain
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