FRM/EDPD/112 CARIBBEAN CARIBBEAN SECONDARY EDUCATION CERTIFICATE® EXAMINATIONS COUNCIL INSTRUCTIONS TO SCHOOLS ON THE SBA LABORATORY EXERCISES, WRITTEN AND PRACTICAL COMPONENTS FOR INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY AND INDUSTRIAL ARTS THE PRACTICAL COMPONENT 1. The laboratory exercises and practical projects in Building Technology, Electrical and Electronic Technology and Mechanical Engineering Technology are marked by a visiting examiner (Moderator) appointed by the Council. No Moderator is
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Wal-Mart study Case#1 1. What threats and challenges is Wal-Mart currently facing? From the beginning, Walmart did not have many threats. However, not only the competition is different, several global retailers such as Target, Carrefour, Costco, and Amazon, are working hard to keep efficiency. They are trying to work together to shrink the prices difference between them. Walmart has facing difficulties from every single angle. Not only the company has internal labor relation problems, but
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Defending a Domestic Position against Global Entries Abstract The paper offers a systematic review of strategic options available to incumbents coping with threats and attacks by a global firm. The framework makes it possible to review and analyze action alternatives based on the entry stage, the attack focus and defense tactics. Even though the globalization process has exposed domestic incumbents to greater threats, incumbents’ options have also increased. The doors of trade liberalization
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day, and the organization's Standing (desired future state) and Steps have to emerge in action, rather than be pre-determined, in the development of strategy. However, this emergence of strategy, ought to be predicated on a Stand (strategic perspective or position), and a set of Shared values, without which emergent strategies may well lead to chaos. The principal role of the leader in a CAS is not to increasingly
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10 Strategic decision making (A-level only) 3.1 What is business? 3.2 Managers, leadership and decision making 3.3 Decision making to improve marketing performance 3.4 Decision making to improve operational performance 3.5 Decision making to improve financial performance 3.6 Decision making to improve human resource performance 3.7 Analysing the strategic position of a business (A-level only) 3.8 Choosing strategic direction (A-level only) 3.9 Strategic methods:
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Apple in case study Question 1/ Analyze the microenvironment and drivers of changes of the PC industry. What are the opportunities and threats facing Apple, Inc. (PESTEL analysis, “Uncertainty/Impact” drivers’ analysis and Scenario Planning)? 20% : a) Opportunities and threats facing Apple, Inc. Opportunities: * Entrance in new markets; * High levels of demand of Apple’s products (IPhone, IPad); * Damages from competitors who doesn’t respect Apple’s patent; * Exploitation
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Assignment # 2 – Chapter 14 Case – “Hewitt-Packard Company” 1. Discuss the three most serious problems you have identified in the case. Defend why you think they are the most serious. When Mark Hurd, the new CEO, took over, he found matrix structures ambiguous, confusing and inefficient. The main reason is that there is no clarity on the roles that each unit in the matrix is intended to play. Unit roles suppose, responsibilities and relationships in a way that is clear, but not excessively
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Week One - Leadership versus Management Completed by – L.B. May 10, 2014 In the text book, Wren refers to leadership as being highly situational; he says, “Leadership is highly situational and contextual. A special chemistry develops between leaders and followers and it is usually context specific” (Wren, 1995, Pg. 30). Leadership can be defined as the ability to inspire other people to accomplish things. A leader teaches by example and motivates others to follow their actions. A leader
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Outsourcing is affecting the U.S. economy greatly. Outsourcing is taking away jobs from the American people causing a rise in the unemployment rates. Not only is outsourcing taking away jobs, but it is making it harder to find new jobs. Outsourcing is where an American company will send certain jobs or duties to be done in another country. Outsourcing is also the transfer of the management, and also the day by day execution of an entire business function to an external service provider. It is a company’s
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A. Marketing B. Management C. Strategic planning D. Accounting 3. Identify the marketing type which is designed to attract donors, members, participants or volunteers? A. Product B. Organization C. Place D. Cause 4. In large organizations, the marketing plans of individual departments are guided by A. Plans rolled out by the production unit B. Sales strategies of the marketing department C. Planning activities of the organizational units D. Strategic plans or blueprints for the entire
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