* Word count or equivalent: 1000 (500 per answer) * Assessment criteria: * To identify the nature of operations management * To analyse the processes of operations management * To analyse management approaches to operations management * To apply operations management to gaining customers and competing * To examine the operational processes and life cycles * Knowledge/understanding of concepts (40%) * Ability to collect, synthesise and apply information (20%)
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turbulent times for the Australian airline industry. It has been confronted with the marked decline in international tourism in the aftermath of the September 2001 terrorist attacks in the US and, more recently traffic loss attributable to war in Iraq and severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) outbreaks in part of Asia and Canada. And off course, the global financial crises in 2008. While the domestic airline industry is largely deregulated, Australia’s international airline industry remains quite deregulated
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Selected Awards 038 Statement on Risk Management 039 Corporate Governance Report 065 Financials 201 Notice of Annual General Meeting On the Cover: Flight Stewardess Nur Surya Ambiah is featured with the Dendrobium Singapore Girl Orchid. THE SINGAPORE AIRLINES GROUP ACHIEVED A NET PROFIT ATTRIBUTABLE TO EQUITY SHAREHOLDERS OF $379 MILLION FOR THE FINANCIAL YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2013. THIS WAS DESPITE RECORDING A LOWER OPERATING PROFIT AMID PERSISTENTLY HIGH FUEL PRICES AND LOWER YIELDS
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Contents South West Airlines 4 Goals and Objectives 5 Their Mission and Vision Statement 5 Strengths 6 Weaknesses 6 Opportunities 8 Threats 8 Analyzing company’s external environment 9 Analyzing the nature and strength of competitive forces 11 Competitive pressure stemming from bargaining power of buyer: 16 Determining whether the collective strength of the five competitive forces is conductive to good profitability: 17 Competitive pressure from seller of substitute
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DAF/COMP(2014)14 Unclassified AIRLINE COMPETITION -- Background Paper by the Secretariat -18-19 June 2014 This document was prepared by the OECD Secretariat to serve as a background note for Item IX at the 121st meeting of OECD Competition Committee on 18-19 June 2014. The opinions expressed and arguments employed herein do not necessarily reflect the official views of the Organisation or of the governments of its member countries. More documents related to this discussion can be found at http://www
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1.0 Introduction Airlines industry faces substantial strategic, financial, operational and hazard risks due to the nature of the operating environment. Financial risks create uncertainties about future cash flows due to changes in economic conditions as well as changes in revenues, operating expenditure and financing costs. Firms are urged to minimise these risks to have higher predictability on future cash flows in order to meet various obligations, for instance shareholders’ required rate of
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otherwise, all dollar ($) figures refer to US dollars (US$). This review uses only 100% recycled paper (Cyclus Print) and vegetable inks. # IATA Membership as of 1 May 2012 ABSA Cargo Airline Adria Airways Aegean Airlines Aer Lingus Aero República Aeroflot Aerolineas Argentinas Aeromexico Aerosvit Airlines Afriqiyah Airways Aigle Azur Air Algérie Air Astana Air Austral Air Baltic Air Berlin Air Canada Air China Air Corsica Air Europa Air France Air India Air Koryo Air Macau Air Madagascar Air
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jets from as many as five major airlines. While Airbus had been courting potential customers for many years—in fact, development had been underway since 1990—the ATO gave the sales force permission to begin taking firm orders for the plane with delivery starting in 2006. Airbus management announced the first orders for the A3XX at the bi-annual Air Show in Farnborough, England, in July 2000. Noël Forgeard, Airbus’ CEO, reported that Air France, Emirates Airlines, and International Lease Finance
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companies can take to a market in order to best serve customer and company needs. It begins with a brief overview of three marketing approaches that companies can take: mass marketing, product-variety marketing, and target marketing. A fuller discussion details the three steps of target marketing, beginning with market segmentation: dividing a market into groups that is measurable, accessible, substantial, and actionable. This can be done in different ways by using geographic, demographic, psychographic
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companies can take to a market in order to best serve customer and company needs. It begins with a brief overview of three marketing approaches that companies can take: mass marketing, product-variety marketing, and target marketing. A fuller discussion details the three steps of target marketing, beginning with market segmentation: dividing a market into groups that is measurable, accessible, substantial, and actionable. This can be done in different ways by using geographic, demographic, psychographic
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