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mailing a letter, getting a haircut, refueling a car, writing a check, or sending clothes to the cleaners are all examples of service consumption at the individual level. T h e institution at which you are studying is itself a c o m p l e x service organization. In addition to educational services, today's college facilities usually include libraries and cafeterias, counseling, a bookstore, placement offices, copy services, telecommunications, and even a bank. If you are enrolled at a residential university
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Marketing DeMystified A Self-Teaching Guide Donna Anselmo New York Chicago San Francisco Lisbon London Madrid Mexico City Milan New Delhi San Juan Seoul Singapore Sydney Toronto Copyright © 2010 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Except as permitted under the United States Copyright Act of 1976, no part of this publication may be reproduced or distributed in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without the prior written permission
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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 quote from Darwin illustrates, about the need to be responsive
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1.2 What is country risk? Describe several types of country risk one might face when conducting business in another country. Country risks refer to the political and financial risks of conducting business in a particular foreign country. Country risks include foreign exchange risk, political risk, and cultural risk. 1.3 What is foreign exchange risk? Foreign exchange (or currency) risk is the risk of unexpected changes in foreign currency exchange rates. 1.4 What is political
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. 5 3.2 IT Jobs & Roles ..................................................................................................... 6 3.3 Link between Corporate Strategy and IT ............................................................... 9 3.4 Organization of IT departments ........................................................................... 10 3.4.1 Additional IT Human Resources Factors ...................................................... 11 3.5 Use of Consultants ...................
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Frontpage: Smith, Alan (2009). The Movement. www.businessmodelgeneration.com Management summary The travel industry is one of the largest and also one of the fastest changing industries in the World. The emergence of the internet has radically changed the way business is conducted throughout the industry. This research focuses on a Dutch tour operator which is having trouble adjusting to the fast changing business environment. This tour operator
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Management, by Philip Kotler Copyright © 2001by Prentice-Hall, Inc. A Pearson Education Company Upper Saddle River, New Jersey 07458 Marketing Management Millenium Edition, Tenth Edition, by Philip Kotler Copyright © 2000 by Prentice-Hall, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, in any form or by any means, without permission in writing from the publisher. Compilation Copyright © 2002 by Pearson Custom Publishing. This copyright covers material written expressly for this volume
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