A Kappa White Paper Business Wargaming This white paper introduces KappaWest’s Business Wargaming concept and process. Its purpose is to help readers determine if and how wargaming might be used in their organizations. C. J. Kurtz President, KappaWest WP-BW Entire content © 2007, KappaWest CONTENTS INTRODUCTION ……………..………………………………………………………………….………………….. SETTING THE STAGE ……………………………..……….………………………………………… BUSINESS WARGAMING PURPOSES …………………………………………………………………………. LEVELS OF BUSINESS
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.....26 Project Management………………………...…27 Role of Finance………………………………...28 Review and Control………………………..…..29 Strategy and People……………………………30 ACCA P3 – Business Analysis These notes are not intended to cover the whole of the ACCA P3 syllabus © Darren Sparkes, 2010 2 Approach Required ‘Differentiation is important to individuals seeking to pass a management and strategy examination. It is the ability to link strategic and financial analysis; it is the confidence to use creative thinking
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facet of a project. Identifying potential risks as well as planning to cope with on-going or emerging risks is crucial to project success and completion. The institution of an adequate risk management system will effectively enable some control over the risks of a project. The implementation of this system is extensive and should be integrated into the framework, mission, and culture of operations to produce successful organizational objectives and to properly evaluate and manage the combined level
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Bankruptcy filing of Kodak Whenever a big corporation files for bankruptcy, many investors question the move. After the recession, many big corporations like Lehman Brothers etc filed Chapter 11. A chapter 11 case starts when the company voluntarily files for a petition in bankruptcy court. When the company has many outstanding, it prefers to file for the case. It was no big surprise when Eastman Kodak, 131 year old company that was founded by George Eastman filed for bankruptcy protection in
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BE MS (Units) 7 Cannibalization 7 Total Contribution (NP) 7 Net Present Value: Today’s $ v. Next Year’s $ 8 Customer Lifetime Value (CLV) 8 Mkt Strat I: Strategy Formulation, Market Assessment Tools (Frameworks), Porter’s Generic Strategies 9 Dolan’s 5 Cs 9 Porter’s 5 Forces Model 10 BCG Matrix 10 Marketing Strategy II: Segmentation and Positioning 11 S-T-P 11 Consumer Segmentation Variables: 11 Business Segmentation Variables: 11 Characteristics of Effective Segmentation
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motivating their high-performance and high-potential employees—and for getting rid of their mediocre ones. Management thinkers have widely endorsed this approach: Larry Bossidy, in the best-selling book Execution, for example, calls this sort of differentiation among employees “the mother’s milk of building a performance culture.” But focusing exclusively on A players puts, well, the horse before the cart. High performers aren’t going to add much value to an organization if they’re smoothly and rapidly pulling
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methods discussed are aimed to help businesses to formulate an effective international business strategy and to position themselves to be successfully established in the global market. The central theory introduced in this article is developed based on a comprehensive framework of the entry modes choices. These modes of choices would determine the success factor of the international business strategy, and to choose these choices there are several important factors to be considered. These factors
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70-80´s. Then Porter came with the positioning school in the 90´s. Why ten schools? Organizations vary and change greatly, so we need more than 1 school. The five p´s of strategy Plan: Forward looking. Can be dangerous if it is strictly planned and something unforeseen happens. Patterns: Backwards looking Positions and perspective. Locating a particular product in a particular market: Strategy of positioning a product. Example: Introduce breakfast at McDonalds to use restaurant in
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advantage and their interrelation. The qualitative study of three beverage producers is conducted. Cases are analyzed based on the theoretical models discussed in the first part of the paper. Findings - This paper provides comparison of positioning strategies and SCA of three international beverage producers. The theoretical framework on determinants of these concepts was developed and applied for case study. The concepts of SCA and SP are interchanging, but from the case study it was not possible to
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1.0 introduction Singapore Telecommunications (SingTel) started in the the year 1879 of as a company which was wholly-possessed by the legislature. Singtel is the largest telecommunication company in Singapore. Singtel have 130 years of telecom operating experience and not only that , they also played a major role in Singapores Develpment by being the key communication centre.Singtel is one of the top compananies in Asia for their telecommunication services , data services like 3G or 4G, internet
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