Advent Case Studies Samples For Students

The Importance of Innovation for the Company

Innovation plays an important role in the changing nature of the music industry because at one point or another, innovation enabled the industry to tap into new market channels such as e-tailing and other websites that provides the same retail service through the Internet. In addition, innovation also opened the music industry into new possibilities in media distribution not only through CD purchase channels, but also distribution of digital contents. Technologies such as MPEG Level 3 Protocol enabled the music industry to distributed tracks over the Internet, which supersedes the conventional distribution channels and use of physical storage.

Crazy, a Process Innovation

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Procter & Gamble Canada: Developing Scope Advertising Copy - Case Analysis

Problem
The case depicts the uncertainty faced by Scope’s management about the appropriateness of their strategy as the company is encountering the issues of trailing market shares in comparison to Listerine. It is also feared that the situation will further deteriorate if appropriate measures are not undertaken regarding their advertising strategy. Scope’s team has also been told that there would not be any further investment over the advertising of the brand in that year. However, the brand critically needs revolutionary and innovative advertising rather than further expenditures over existing advertising strategy. The chief problem is to design ...

1. What microorganism do you believe is to blame for this illness (be specific)? Provide background information on this organism, history, morphology, virulence factors, toxins

Hemophilus Influenza is a cocobacillus that is small, pleomorphic and is gram-negative. It is non-motile and does not form spores. It is also a facultative anaerobe. Some strains of Hemophilus influenza have a capsule composed of polysaccharide (Deverajan, 2012), (CDC, 2013). There are 6 different stereotypes of the virus, labeled a-f. This division is based on the biochemical differences in the capsules (Deverajan, 2012). Some strains of Hemophilus Influenza do not possess capsules and are therefore referred to as nonencapsulated Hemophilus Influenza. They are also sometimes called nontypeable Hemophilus influenza. Identification of the different strains is done by slide agglutination for stereotyping ( ...

The changes in the global economy, the progressing state of the emerging countries that resulted to the increasing middle income consumers, and the development and spread of the internet technology impacted the ticket distribution system of the airline industry. The airline companies developed new and more cost-efficient ways of selling and distributing air tickets to be price competitive and at the same time to survive the intense competition in the industry and the economic struggles especially in North America and Europe.
The global distribution systems (GDS), was the most common and prevalent system of airline ticket distribution in ...

Introduction

The case study will focus on Pankaj et al (2004) and David, B. Y & Renee, K (2013), articles published in Harvard Business School, journal, to review and discuss Wal-Mart’s operations capabilities and way forward.
Wal-Mart as an organization is a story of astonishing success in terms of revenues and the way it has touched lives through its products and services made Forbes declare the company in March 2003, as the largest and most admired American company.

Wal-Mart’s strategy in the discount retailing industry

The strategy of Wal-Mart is affixed on differentiated pricing, cost leadership, strong distribution, inventory management and most importantly in tandem with the technology-based ...

- America’s social capital reserve has continually been eroded.
- The erosion of America’s social capital is a matter of urgency and concern, and it does matter to the general society at large.
- Despite the detrimental effects that the erosion of social capital in America has brought, there still exist ways that can result in the replenishment of social capital.
In measuring the level of civic engagement in America, Dr. Putnam uses some variables that he believes can help in the explanation of the malady – erosion of social capital. Some of these variables that ...