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regarded as strategic may occur at all levels of the organisation. There are usually two levels of decisions – corporate and business. Corporate-level decisions are those that affect the entire organisation or firm, whereas Business-level decisions affect the particular business or division. If there is only one business in the firm, then both the corporate and business levels are identical. 2. Strategy This is the common theme underlying a set of strategic decisions. The strategy may be to change

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BUSINESS CASE: ESTABLISHMENT and OPERATION of the FIRST RATING AGENCY in UGANDA by XYZ RATING AGENCY AND CONSULTANCY | A. | TABLE OF CONTENTS | | | | | | S/NO. | | DESCRIPTION | PAGE | | | | | 1.0 | | BUSINESS PROFILE | 2 | | 1.1 | Business Concept | 2 | | 1.2 | The Company | 3 | | 1.3 | Mission | 4 | | 1.4 | Keys to Success | 4 | | 1.5 | Rationale | 4 | | 1.6 | Position for Growth | 5 | | | | | 2.0 | | SERVICE DESCRIPTION | 7 | | 2.1 | Company Performance

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Competing Through Manufacturing by Steven C. Wheelwright and Robert H. Hayes Harvard Business Review Reprint 85117 HBR J A N U A RY– F E B R U A RY 1 9 8 5 Competing Through Manufacturing by Steven C. Wheelwright and Robert H. Hayes M anufacturing companies, particularly those in the United States, are today facing intensified competition. For many, it is a case of simple survival. What makes this challenge so difficult is that the “secret weapon” of their fiercest competitors

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Understanding the process of backsourcing: two cases of process and product backsourcing in Europe Julia Kotlarsky1, Lars Bognar2 1 2 Aston Business School, Aston University, Birmingham, UK; Google Ireland Ltd., Dublin, Ireland Correspondence: J Kotlarsky, Aston Business School, Aston University, Birmingham, B4 7ET, UK. Tel: þ 44 121 2043116; E-mail: j.kotlarsky@aston.ac.uk Abstract Backsourcing, defined generally as bringing services outsourced to a third party back inhouse, is now a

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Employment News 11 - 17 February 2012 www.employmentnews.gov.in 21 Union Public Service Commission EXAMINATION NOTICE NO. 04/2012-CSP DATED 11.02.2012 (LAST DATE FOR RECEIPT OF APPLICATIONS : 05.03.2012) CIVIL SERVICES EXAMINATION, 2012 (Commission's website - http://www.upsc.gov.in) F. No. 1/4/2011-E.I(B) : Preliminary Examination of the Civil Services Examination for recruitment to the Services and Posts mentioned below will be held by the Union Public Service Commission on 20th

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Journal of Information Systems Vol. 16, No. 2 Fall 2002 pp. 209–222 Impact of Information Technology on Public Accounting Firm Productivity Rajiv D. Banker Hsihui Chang The University of Texas at Dallas Yi-ching Kao University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee ABSTRACT: In recent years, information technology (IT) has played a critical role in the services provided by the public accounting industry. However, no empirical research has evaluated the impact of IT on public accounting firms. This study focuses

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It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the ones most responsive to change. (Charles Darwin) Introduction In this chapter, we turn our focus to how organizations sustain advantage. We do this through exploring strategic change, while, to complement this in Chapter 12, we examine strategic innovation and corporate entrepreneurship. Strategic change is about ensuring that the organization is consistently relevant in its market arenas and, as the opening

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HUMAN RESOURCE COSTING AND ACCOUNTING VERSUS THE BALANCED SCORECARD: A LITERATURE SURVEY OF EXPERIENCE WITH THE CONCEPTS1 Ulf Johanson, Gunilla Eklöv, Mikael Holmgren, Maria Mårtensson2 6FKRRO RI %XVLQHVV 6WRFNKROP 8QLYHUVLW\  à Uurà ƒ…r†r‡Ã ƒ…‚wrp‡Ã v†Ã ‚rà ‚sà †r‰r…hyà †ˆiƒ…‚wrp‡†Ã vÃ ‡urà H@SDUVHà Hrh†ˆ…vtà D‡htviyr†Ã ‡‚à Vqr…†‡hqà hq D€ƒ…‚‰rÃD‚‰h‡v‚Ã Hhhtr€r‡à ƒ…‚wrp‡à Uurà hv€Ã ‚sà ‡urà H@SDUVHà ƒ…‚wrp‡Ã v†Ã ‡‚à v‰r†‡vth‡rà ƒ‚††vivyv‡vr†Ã ‡‚à €rh†ˆ…r hqà …rƒ‚…‡Ã

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Doing Business 2015 India Economy Profile 2015 India Doing Business 2015 India © 2014 The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development / The World Bank 1818 H Street NW, Washington, DC 20433 Telephone: 202-473-1000; Internet: www.worldbank.org All rights reserved. 1 2 3 4 17 16 15 14 This work is a product of the staff of The World Bank with external contributions. The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in this work do not necessarily reflect the

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