• Subsidiaries: o Tazo Tea Company o Seattle’s Best Coffee o Torrefazione Italia o Ethos Water o Hear Music o Evolution Fresh • Key Executives: o Howard Schultz, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer o Cliff Burrows, President, Americas o John Culver, President, Starbucks Coffee China and Asia Pacific o Jeff Hansberry, President, Starbucks Channel Development and Seattle’s Best Coffee o Arthur Rubinfeld, President, Global Development o Michell Gass, President, Starbucks Europe
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McKinsey Global Institute May 2013 Disruptive technologies: Advances that will transform life, business, and the global economy The McKinsey Global Institute The McKinsey Global Institute (MGI), the business and economics research arm of McKinsey & Company, was established in 1990 to develop a deeper understanding of the evolving global economy. Our goal is to provide leaders in the commercial, public, and social sectors with the facts and insights on which to base management and policy
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integrate technology-enhanced learning with business process management Nicola Capuano, Matteo Gaeta, Pierluigi Ritrovato and Saverio Salerno Abstract Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to propose an innovative approach for providing an answer to the emerging trends on how to integrate e-learning efficiently in the business value chain in medium and large enterprises. Design/methodology/approach – The proposed approach defines methodologies and technologies for integrating technology-enhanced
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Framework White Paper By: Charles Bloomfield Insightformation, Inc. Published: May 2002 For the latest information, please see http://www.microsoft.com/business/bi/ Abstract This paper describes the Microsoft® approach to developing and implementing a Balanced Scorecard for enterprise performance management. It presents basic information on the Balanced Scorecard performance management methodology, and identifies key business issues that must be addressed in developing
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The Evolution of HR: Developing HR as an Internal Consulting Organization Richard M. Vosburgh, Mirage Resorts, MGM MIRAGE A s the role and impact of the HR profession continue to evolve, we have reached a critical crossroad. Together and now, business leaders and HR professionals have the opportunity to understand the history that brings us to our current situation, to be informed by predictable trends, and to make the transformation necessary to result in organizational competitive advantage
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| July–August 2007 I the one sure source of lasting competitive advantage is knowledge. When markets shift, technologies proliferate, competitors multiply, and products become obsolete almost overnight, successful companies are those that consistently create new knowledge, disseminate it widely throughout the organization, and quickly embody it in new technologies and products. These activities define the “knowledge-creating” company, whose sole business is continuous innovation.
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Evolution of Management Accounting: Contemporary Significance and Retrospection Abstract: The management accounting aim in future forecasting, planning and making decisions for the firm. It is also good at cost managing (cost accounting), improving production and management controlling, for example, the Balance Scorecard and Management Control System. What is evolution? The synonym of evolution is development which means the experiences of its past to present, also means history. Thus
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Chapter 1: THE DYNAMIC ENVIRONMENT OF HRM LEARNING OUTCOMES After reading this chapter, students should be able to: • Discuss how cultural environments affect human resource management (HRM) practices. • Describe how technology is changing HRM • Identify significant changes that have occurred in workforce composition • Describe the HRM implications of a labor shortage • Describe how changing skill requirements affect HRM • Explain why organizational members focus on quality
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A R T I C L E www.hbr.org Strategy and the Internet by Michael E. Porter Included with this full-text Harvard Business Review article: 1 Article Summary The Idea in Brief—the core idea The Idea in Practice—putting the idea to work 2 Strategy and the Internet 20 Further Reading A list of related materials, with annotations to guide further exploration of the article’s ideas and applications Product 6358 Strategy and the Internet The Idea in Brief Does the Internet render established
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The current paper explores and describes the experiences of one Malaysian player, the Mydin Hypermarket in its quest to champion the local consumer market. A 2003 publication of a US bestseller entitled KMart’s Ten Deadly Sins had a tremendous impact on the business strategy and future direction of the Mydin business in this country. Originally built in the 1990s to emulate the then highly successful K-Mart Superstore in the United States, the Mydin Business had to immediately change its
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