July 5, 2001, Kimi Ford, a portfolio manager at NorthPoint Group, a mutual-fund management firm, pored over analysts’ write-ups of Nike, Inc., the athletic-shoe manufacturer. Nike’s share price had declined significantly from the beginning of the year. Ford was considering buying some shares for the fund she managed, the NorthPoint Large-Cap Fund, which invested mostly in Fortune 500 companies, with an emphasis on value investing. Its top holdings included ExxonMobil, General Motors, McDonald’s, 3M
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INDIAN SCHOOL OF BUSINESS MANAGEMENT & ADMINISTRATION PROJECT REPORT On A FRAMEWORK OF “SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT” Submitted for the Partial fulfillment towards the award of the degree in MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION Submitted By Under the Guidance of SHARATH HS Roll Number: Session – 2013-14
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9 B. Learning to use information systems: New Opportunities with technology 10 3.0 The Strategic Role of Information Systems 14 A. Organizations and Information Systems 14 B. Information systems & Business Strategy 20 4.0 Information Systems, Organizations and Business Strategy 28 A. Organizations and Information Systems 28 B. How Organization Affect Information Systems 33 C. How Information Systems Impact organizations and Business firms 35 5.0 Information, Management & Decision Making
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Columbia Project: Use of Software to Achieve Competitive Advantage AUTOMOBILES: TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION Gaining and Sustaining Long-term Advantage Through Information Technology Case Prepared By William V. Rapp Co-Principal Investigator The College of International Relations Ritsumeikan University Kyoto, Japan 914-945-0630 (Fax: 914-923-1416; 011-81-75-466-1214) E-mail: william.rapp@aya.yale.edu April 2000 SOFTWARE AS A TOOL OF COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE: AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY 1 2 3 4
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SPOTLIGHT Strategy and Society The Link Between Competitive Advantage and Corporate Social Responsibility by Michael E. Porter and Mark R. Kramer • Reprint R0612D HBR SPOTLIGHT Strategy and Society The Link Between Competitive Advantage and Corporate Social Responsibility by Michael E. Porter and Mark R. Kramer COPYRIGHT © 2006 HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL PUBLISHING CORPORATION. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Governments, activists, and the media have become adept at holding companies to account
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1 Building Your CSR Business Strategy Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat. —Sun Tzu In honor of Earth Month, Wal-Mart launched its first-ever in-store magalogue (kind of a cross between a magazine and a catalogue), which aimed to inform its customers—roughly 200 million of them in a month—on actions they could take, while shopping at Wal-Mart, to help the planet. This was great business strategy not only for Wal-Mart in promoting
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The Supply Chain Management Processes Keely L. Croxton, Sebastián J. García-Dastugue and Douglas M. Lambert The Ohio State University Dale S. Rogers University of Nevada, Reno Increasingly, supply chain management is being recognized as the management of key business processes across the network of organizations that comprise the supply chain. While many have recognized the benefits of a process approach to managing the business and the supply chain, most are vague about what processes are to be
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BMW Company study Abstract: BMW is one of the leading luxury car makers in the market today. This study provides an insight into the company’s history and background. Also it contains an examination of BMW’s quality system, six sigma’s application and an observation of the quality control process throughout the different stages of the production phase. In addition, detailed information is presented on the number of employees and the training they receive before and during their work time in
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recognize that a strategic plan is a directional map for where their companies are headed and how they intend to get there. However, it is much harder for them to understand what goes into the strategic planning process, how the strategy-making task is best performed, and the full impact of the process the planning team goes through to develop the strategic direction of their organization. Strategic planning is best done when a company looks at its past, present, and future in light of its related
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COMPANY PROFILE Sime Darby Berhad REFERENCE CODE: 5C1EB837-8775-459E-B821-AC170A84896A PUBLICATION DATE: 8 May 2015 www.marketline.com COPYRIGHT MARKETLINE. THIS CONTENT IS A LICENSED PRODUCT AND IS NOT TO BE PHOTOCOPIED OR DISTRIBUTED. Sime Darby Berhad TABLE OF CONTENTS TABLE OF CONTENTS Company Overview..............................................................................................3 Key Facts.....................................................................
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