decades to fully implement the changes? 3． Lecture 2 McDonald’s and Hindu Culture ． Read the case “McDonald’s and Hindu Culture and answer the following questions: (a) What lessons does the experience of McDonald’s in India hold for other foreign fast-food chains and retail stores? (b) Is there anything that McDonald’s could have done to have foreseen or better prepared itself for the negative publicity associated with the revelation that it used beef extract in its frying oil? (c) How
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MANAGEMENT Lecturer – Baizhan A.B., assistant professor Business activity Learning objectives: 1. Identify the factors involved in business activity 2. Identify the sectors of an economy involved in creating wealth 3. Appreciate the functions involved in business activity 4. Understand the importance of added value in all parts of business Content: What is business? What is business activity? The customer; Needs and wants; Inputs and outputs: land, labour
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Name: Khairil bin Sarian Title: Why Business Models Matter Author: Joan Magretta Year of Article: 2002 Abstract This article discusses about the business model and strategy that popularly being used in the organization as a tool to stream a good profit to their business. The concept was introduced and being used during the beginning of internet utilization by all organization. It is not easy to have this kind of thinking to create a business model and strategy which is two different concept
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personalized and unique by giving each customer exactly what they want instead of a generic model PC offered to everyone while at the same time saving themselves money on production costs for Dell (Baker, 2011, 254). This strength that Dell has can offer consumers a variety of product differentiation that is not offered by other competitors. Dell allows customers to choose the size of their computer screen, the processor, the software, the color, the support, the protection, different cloud software, the
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could bring about higher returns on investment as well as competitiveness, organizational agility, and cost minimization on businesses. Hence, Cloud Computing Technology could be cited as a good and practical opportunity even for small-medium enterprises (SMEs) such as local distributors of consumer goods because they do not have the technical expertise to establish the IT infrastructure to catch up with, and to remain profitable and competitive amidst the changes in the industry, growing competition
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tremendous change, which also means drastic changes for each consumer. Many aspects of this evolution were brought about by technological innovations. Similarly the now sociologically established and oft-documented evolution in social values was massively influenced by these new technologies, which are in large part responsible for putting everyone in competition with everyone else while simultaneously increasing the wishes and demands of the consumers. The concept of “handmade mass production” is one such
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Aprilia for competing in the PTW market. What are the relative strengths and weaknesses of each? 3. State whether or not Giovanni Agnelli should build the new engine facility First, I do not think that manufacturing a "green" engine is a good strategy. It is a good initiative but we cannot disregard that fact that ultimately, generating profits are the main goal of any company. Yes, they are looking into the future and planning ahead how to adapt to upcoming regulations on new environmental standards
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1.0Introduction Today’s fast changing market is forcing POS Malaysia into a revolutionary transformation in the following areas: - To build POS Malaysia brand value “Efficiency” - To re-engineer - To innovate - To move into new area of opportunity in e-commerce POS has plenty of room to reinvent and improve itself by offering new services while continuing to capitalize on its mass user base (28million). The transformation challenges include: - Customer driven - IT to focus - Funding the
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CISCO CASE STUDY QUESTION 1 How is building a brand in a business-to-business context different from doing so in the consumer market? ANSWER First of all we must describe what is meant by business-to-business. Business-to-business is a transaction that occurs between a company and another company, as opposed to a transaction involving a consumer (R wright, 2004). R .Wright further elaborates it as a term that may refer to a situation where one business makes a commercial transaction with
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received a positive reception have been known to do very well in the market. However, any negative comments about a product or service shows a similar reaction, since the social media networks have a large audience hence the information here travels fast and wide. Question 2 leveraging strategy for enhancing brand equity The coca cola company has been well known for the production of energy and non alcoholic beverages. It is a brand that has a well defined, wide global market share. The company has
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