Developing Case Studies Samples For Students

How the Developing Market Escaped the Debt Trap

1.0 Introduction
The debt crisis between the years 2007 and 2008 had huge impacts on the performance of many economies across the world. This saw many industries in such economies collapse while others report very poor performance as a result of lack of funds to invest in them. This is because many people who had funds were afraid of losing their hard-earned money were they to invest it in the various industries. Moreover, people had lost confidence in the financial institutions and were therefore afraid of investing any funds in such sectors for fear of losing their investments. This ...

An overview of the challenges faced in Zanzibar as well as in one other exemplar "developing country" as regards the evolution, and adoption of IT/Corporate Governance standards in the public sector
Whilst most developing countries are faced with similar challenges when it comes to the establishment of public information security, most have realized the significance of coming at par in this respect with their developed counterparts. The use of Zanzibar in this regard is therefore an exemplar to prevailing circumstance. The public sector in this respect is considered as lagging behind the private sector in the implementation of ...

What target market does Embrace seek to serve and how attractive is that market?

Embrace Infant Warmer is targeting endangered premature babies born in the developing countries, who face fatal risks due to hypothermia. The product also targets mothers and family of premature babies, especially those in rural villages who do not have the resources to come to hospitals for delivery and incubator facilities. There are many infant deaths every year in developing countries due to hypothermia and the co-founders aim to deliver a product that is a cheaper alternative to protect premature babies. Since, premature babies need incubators to survive after birth and adjust to temperature changes outside their mother’s body, ...

Henry Mintzberg gives a critical analysis on the issue of development in the article ‘shifting the trajectory of civilization; developing leaders? Developing countries?’ He uses the reference to developing countries to display his ideas on the issue of ‘developing’ leaders and development in these countries. This paper seeks to explore on the ideas of Mintzberg as expressed in the article.

What is his key point?

Mintzberg is of the idea that it is impossible to think of developing a leader or a country, an idea that most developing countries seem to integrate in their development prospects. According to him, an ideal leader is not one who acts ...

1. Introduction
The case study is about Papa John’s Pizza restaurant that has adopted various strategic initiatives which enabled them to register growth and progress. Their capability and strategic moves adopted for delivering top quality pizza yielded good results, despite high competition. Various customer centric approaches and strategic initiatives adopted by the company include, designing the menu to deliver high quality products with unique side dishes; innovativeness in new product development; “efficient operating system”; employee empowerment and developmental activities; effective and precise marketing techniques and the franchise system (Case study 8). But in the recent times, the ...

Hyperlipidemia

Hyperlipidemia

Introduction

Patients diagnosed with hyperlipidemia have inherited or developed elevated fat or lipid levels in their blood. The condition increases the patient’s risk of blood vessel disease leading to stroke as well as heart disease. Patient Lori is a 44-year-old Caucasian female and during her well-woman-exam voiced no medical complaints. Lori is a telephone operator for a busy law firm. Her Vital signs: BP 128/84; wt; 133 lbs; Ht 64 inches; eyes have yellow-orange raised lesions on eyelids; remainder of exam is unremarkable.

Literature Review

According to Rosenson (2015), Nelson (2012), Chanoine (2008), Jones et al (2013), Bays et al ( ...

In purchasing the most suitable system off of the shelf and modifying it according to its individual production needs, this company will face various issues. The employees of JC Gear Company may find it difficult to work with this system. The procedures associated with the running of this system may involve a lot of technicalities that the employees of the company are not familiar with them. This makes the whole process of operation very difficult.
Purchasing the system off the shelf may also lead to problems because it may not suit the actual needs of the JC Gearing Company. ...

Management Development: A Case of Britannic Assurance

Management Development: A Case of Britannic Assurance

Introduction

This paper reviews a case study of a management development programme initiated by an insurance company based in the United Kingdom dubbed Britannica Assurance. It reviews the company before and after the adoption of the management development program in regard to its general performance. Subsequently, an evaluation and analysis of the case study is presented detailing the contributions of other literary works on the topic of management development. Essentially, the analysis and evaluation is to develop an understanding of the benefits or otherwise of the management development program and its importance or lack of ...

Re-Segmenting of an Existing Market

The Foursticks situation was a case of re-segmenting of an existing market. A situation involving entering a new market includes the introduction of a technology that takes 100 percent of the share market (Cooper and Vlaskovits, 2010). In addition, no other technology exists apart from the one that the company introduces, and technology will cease to be used by the customers when a new technology is introduced and replaces the existing one altogether. According to Cooper and Vlaskovits (2010), re-segmenting of an existing market involves lowering costs or providing new functionality that provides solutions to existing problems. In the Foursticks situation, the young ...

Introduction

In Dilemma 4, a company manager is concerned about whether he should stop doing business with two of his suppliers for violating international child labor laws. The suppliers are based in a foreign country where it is legal to employ underage children so long as they are not doing dangerous work. However, the manager understands that the UN passed a convention that prohibits all forms of child labor, and that this convention is binding upon all party states. The ethical dilemma is that if the manager stops doing business with the two companies, his company will run short of ...

Executive Summary

Outdoor Adventure Paintball Park has been started by Davis and his family to offer outdoor sports and entertainment to the community. With the growth of the company, its activities have also increased that have resulted in the challenges. The major cause of the issues and problems in the successful business is the lack of strategic management. The management nor defines its mission neither plan the organizational structure, culture and leadership that has resulted in the poor management of Paintball Park. Selecting the collaborative management model, it is recommended to Davis and his family that the mission and objectives are ...

Question 1 Response

BIG’s business model involves developing innovative toy concepts and sharing them with manufacturers who develop the products. Despite being a relatively small and young company, Big has managed to bring into the market the most innovative concepts when established companies feel they lack the necessary innovation. One of the reasons why BIG is so successful in developing innovative toy concepts when major companies find it difficult is because BIG is mainly focused on understanding consumers rather than technology. Big is not concerned with latest technologies that can be incorporated into the toy industry. Rather, the company goes out ...

Introduction

Identification of talent in athletes is challenging, but important, because it can lead to the potential for understanding the lifelong development of athletes who compete for prolonged periods of time. In analyzing these conditions it is evident that there is a benefit to understanding the underlying principles associated with lifelong development. This demonstrates the fact that “it takes eight to twelve years of training for a talented athlete to reach elite level” (Balyi 2001, p. 1). Understanding the physical and mental conditions under which athletic talent can thrive is essential in developing a commitment to these priorities and their ...

Terrorism

Forecast 1: The number of offenses reported to the police involving computers and electronic storage media will continue to increase substantially, requiring changing priorities for resource allocation, new training for line officers and investigators, new police specialties, and new knowledge for prosecuting attorneys and judges.
Electronic devices that store data are becoming varied and easily accessible. All of them are potential goldmine for investigators. At the same time their storage capacity is increasing; their size is getting smaller; and their prices plummeting. Against this background, modern criminal are using these devices in ways which are unfamiliar to investigators ...

- PESTEL Strength and Weaknesses
In the fast growing business environment the role of MNC’s has become more important and the target markets are considered to be the developing economies, which bring a great opportunity and motives for international corporations to expand and aggressively grow the market size in a short period of time. Although the incentives and growing needs of population implement the huge needs and more prospects in emerging markets, it is however, becoming more complicated for Multinationals or any other businesses to target the right sized market and make a segmentation of right population. These and more ...

- THE CHANGE MANAGEMENT PROCESS

PROCEDURE “prepare for change”

- Selection of a team to spearhead the changes that it anticipates to implement at the company.
- Restructuring of the management- The management of J & T Bank should collaborate with the selected team and all employees to establish whether to centralize or to decentralize the bank’s management in order to achieve its strategic goals.
- Evaluation of the Human Resources Department- The selected team should establish the faults and causes of complaints among sections of its human resources. This will serve as a basis of equalizing human resource functions at the branches ...

- Why is economic nationalism on the upswing? Why do rising food and energy forces force national governments to take action? What kinds of action are they taking?
Economic nationalism is on the rise because of the increased emphasis by governments on domestic control of capital information, economy and labor. As such, policies that regulate and at times restrict the movement of labor, goods and capital are instituted by governments. This is in response to the effects of globalization that has among other things seen the loss of significance of national boundaries. Rising food and energy prices have ...

Poverty and Pollution

Any environmental damage definitely and immediately threatens the present and future welfare of human beings, of plants, animals and entire ecosystem. Threats to the environment can come from two sources, namely pollution and resource depletion. Both can increase exponentially as industrialization expands. In the Third World, environmental mathematics works like this: the more factories we run the more pollution and resource depletion we have.
Pollution refers to the unintended and undesirable contamination of the environment by the producer or use of commodities like fossil fuels, plastics, chemicals and other materials organic or synthetic. Pollution seems to be the ...

Appendix

Executive Summary
- Introduction
- Methodology
- Benefit and Cost Categories
- Forecasting Methodology and Decision Criteria
- Assumption
- Analysis
- Project Analysis (commentary and summary of base case results)
- Sensitivity Analysis
- Evaluating the project
- Risk Analysis
- Conclusion/Recommendation
Executive Summary
The cost benefit analysis is the fundamental appraisal tool under the public spending sector. The paper provides an approach by which the cost incurred in e-government project is compared against the expected benefits so that the government can be able to ...

Introduction

Reverse innovation also called trickle-up innovation is a business innovation strategy, which is first used in developing countries before it spreads to industrialized world. In this strategy inexpensive for instance, battery-operated medical instruments are first developed to meet demands of developing nations before they are repacked as low-cost innovative products for the Western customers.
This strategy has proved to bring a revolution in existing business models. For instance, in global health systems, the low-income countries have often offer solutions to both middle and high-income countries. There are a number of ways in which this has been applied like health financing and ...

Introduction.

Intercultural maturity was introduced in the learning theory in developing the capacity to understand personal identity and self relation. The concept involves the development of awareness on cultural diversity in a manner that is intercultural and appropriate. The motive of intercultural maturity is to promote an individual sense of relation to other people with different opinions on culture. Awareness and knowledge on intercultural maturity leads to understanding of different personal identities, interaction with different people from different historical backgrounds and social contexts, and a reflection on the differences that motivate action among individual with diverse cultural backgrounds. King and Baxter (2005) ...

In recent years emerging markets are becoming more and more attractive for global companies as target markets, sources of inputs and as global production sites, R&D hubs and opportunities for market development (Khanna and Palepu ). The case “Tata Group: India’s New Global Challenger” illustrates that Indian companies are also becoming more important in the international market (Sirkin and Hemerling).
There are several reasons why international companies and investors should consider emerging countries as strong market players. The first reason is the rate of economic growth in emerging countries that by far exceeds that in the developed world. ...

Question 3

Instead of selecting country-markets on the basis of stand-alone attractiveness, managers need to consider how participation in a particular country will contribute to globalization benefits and the global competitive position of the business. Being a serious global player means much more than simply having a certain percent of your revenues from outside the USA and being involved in a certain number of countries. Being present in ten countries that include the United States, Japan, and Germany is far more important, in most industries, than is being present in thirty countries that exclude these three but include many small, less advanced countries.To have a global ...

CONTENTS
I. Executive Summary 3
II. Introduction 3

Question 1 5

A. Should Google Continue with Projects like Google Loon and Google Fiber? 5
B. Is the Innovation Model of Google Sufficient to Foster Innovation, or should it Change It? 7
C. What Steps Should Google Take to Increase the Confidence of Analysts and Investors in Its Innovation Strategies 9
III. Question 2 – What Should Google Do to Preserve Entrepreneurial Spirit 9
IV. Conclusions 10

References 12

Executive Summary
Among all the companies, which drive innovation, Google, Inc. enjoys a special place. The projects of this company changed the way people do business, the ...

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Introduction to gender identity disorder

Mental health is the absence of the mental disorder or the level of the psychological wellbeing. Therefore, it is the ability of a person to create an equilibrium between life activities and to enjoy life. It includes the mental, emotional and social being and therefore, it affects how we feel, think and act as we cope with life. Mental fitness determines how we make choices, handle stress, and relate to others and handling stress. Mental disorders affect our thinking, behavior, and mood. Mental disorders are caused by a family history of mental illness, genes and the life ...

Google has been developing many various technologies that can improve human life and make it easier and handy to use. The company has been present in the market a long time and has so far provided many interesting and useful technologies. With the evolving of sophistication of information technologies the more complex systems are being built for individual usage. Almost everyone on this planet in developed world has the access to the internet or the communication tolls that are sometimes needed in the rear to use the google technologies. The research paper will examine five Google technologies implemented or ...

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS STRATEGY

International Business Strategy
- The recent research in the coffee industry indicates growing trends in the consumption of the premium coffee in the developed and developing countries. This aspect is highly valuable for Espressamente’s (an Illy brand) strategic decision of increasing its international presence, because Illy is recognized as the best coffee in Italy, destined for the premium consumers (Alon and Lohwasser, 2012). Another reason that sustains Espressamente’s intention of pursuing an international expansion resides in the fact that despite the high competition existent in the coffee industry, the developed and developing countries possess a high potential ...

This is an interesting case where The Candelstik company of Canada wants to strike a deal with a departmental store chain in Mexico for supply of their goods. The problem with the deal is there is a cultural difference in both the companies as they are from different counties. Even the economies are different as Canada is a developed economy whereas Mexico is a developing economy. Both the team wants the best deal for their respective companies.

In the case discussed the problems faced is to understand the cultural difference. The major difference in culture between developed economies and developing economies. Usually the ...

Purchasing power parity (PPP) theory is a macroeconomic application, which postulates that an identical commodity traded across many nations should have the same prices relative to the prevailing exchange rates. The Big Mac index shows a big difference in selling prices of the product across several countries, which challenges the authenticity of this theory. The case study survey cannot provide exhaustive reason to render the theory in question impractical. Many countries manipulate their currencies relative to the dollar, which shows a disguised difference in exchange rate and value (McEachern, 2012).

For instance, many countries strive to protect their domestic products from imports; ...

- What did you learn that was beneficial to you? Be specific (i.e. give specific examples and references). Why did you find this beneficial? How will you apply what you have learned to your personal lifestyle?

In this class I have learned that eating healthy does not necessarily mean consuming less calories, skipping specific food groups, or skipping whole meals; but rather, eating healthy means consuming all types of foods in a balanced way. What surprised me most was that healthy eating actually means consuming many calories, but they have to be beneficial; they cannot be so called “empty calories.” Foods that are considered high in calories but still healthy are dried fruits and avocados. Cereal is a good breakfast option because of the high percentage of fiber and calcium. While consuming many healthy calories is ...

Question 1. Why should Starbucks, Kraft, and Nestle create "ethical supply chains”?

The concept of ethical supply chain has grown more and more popular in the recent years. Ethical in this case should not be confused with legally right, since ethical considerations go far beyond legislation or business relations. Ethical behaviour is usually linked to social responsibility of the companies, which is embedded into their strategy and operations. In businesses related to the global sourcing of inputs, ethical behaviour largely depends on the fair trade concepts, which promote supporting suppliers in the poor countries in order to improve their productivity and enhance competitiveness (Barrar, and Gervais). Since supply chain is in ...

Introduction

Bacterial meningitis is an infection that affects the meninges, the cerebrospinal fluid and the spinal cord that causes death and disability in a number of people worldwide. This is a highly contagious airborne disease that is spread through the transmission of three organisms present in the respiratory secretions: Neisseria meningitides, Haemophilus influenzae, and Streptococcus pneumoniae. The onset or origins of the disease varies among different age groups and geographic locations. According to estimates, 200,000 people die annually of meningitis. Case fatality rates vary with age at time of illness and also depend on the particular bacterial strain causing the infection ( ...

One of the most detrimental outcomes of climate change, particularly unpredictable rainfall patterns, is water shortage. Since water is essential, it is highly important that concerned public and private entities prevent or address water shortage. Fortuitously, opportunities exist to manage water shortage. Infrastructure development, for instance, is one of the solutions to water shortage. Communities, particularly those with limited water sources such as countries in the dry regions of South Africa, need infrastructure that would curb shortage. Existing infrastructure include those that contribute to water supply management as well as other systems or schemes that aim towards similar goals. ...

Executive Summary

Problem Statement
In 2012 Netflix was challenged to change its strategy, because it registered severe drop in its total revenues, market share and rates, risking continuous depreciation and increased subscription cancellations.

Analysis

Alternatives
- Develop strategic partnerships with production studios for obtaining exclusive streaming rights;
- Developing strategic partnerships with internet providers for proposing an add-on to the internet service for the provider’s internet users simultaneously in United States, United Kingdom and Ireland.

Recommendation:

The recommended strategy is to close deals with internet providers, as it would have been easy to be implemented, implying limited budgets rapid ...

Emerging Financial Market

Over the past more than ten years, world economic growth is characterized by emerging economies that represent different economic portfolios. Countries that are in the phase between developed and developing economies are emerging markets. They face a number of challenges ranging from underdeveloped financial markets to heavy reliance on debt capital. Inadequacy of accurate information is also a challenge in these economies thus affecting their decision-making. The investors in emerging markets finance their business ventures with short-term loans as opposed to long-term loans. Due to their poorly developed financial markets, they primarily rely on debt from banks as opposed to bonds ...

Integrated Corporate Reporting

Introduction
Integrated Corporate Reporting (ICR) can definitively be termed as a contemporary approach to communication by businesses with the intent of providing a holistic report on the organization’s strategy. Hence, ICR is a concise communication approach to bring together all mannerism of reporting on the state of the business enterprise. Such include concerns regarding strategy, risk, performance and sustainability etcetera. Therefore, ICR is particularly concerned with provision of succinct information that captures the key challenges and opportunities that a business is faced with in its sustainability. This paper evaluates the concept of Integrated Corporate Reporting in the context of Malaysian companies ...

Jason Jowers, a product manager at the Atlantic Computer Inc, had a great responsibility in the company after four months of joining it. Being the youngest product manager with fresh knowledge in management rotations, which included several projects such as business development, project strategy and project management, he had a great responsibility of developing a pricing strategy for the existent ‘Atlantic Bundle’ at the company that was a large manufacturer of high-tech products and servers. The ‘Atlantic Bundle’ was a new PESA software tool and a Tronn server. He acknowledged that it was a great task ahead of him, but was eager and confident to handle the ...

Self-driving cars

Google has developed self-driving cars. Although the cars are not yet fully developed, they have been tested on the roads. The cars are manned by operators who understand how the technology works. The cars have been developed to make use of cameras, sensors that use sensor technology and laser range finders so that they are able to navigate the traffic. They have also been developed to make use of maps which are detailed. This way, they are able to know the traffic and the road that has been set ahead. This is enhanced and made possible with the well-developed ...

Background of the Company

World Wide Technology (WWT) is a private company that handles technology and supply chain solutions .It concentrates mainly on commercial telecommunication and government sectors. Their core objective is to customers in arranging, procuring and deploying of information technology products and solutions to their premises. It was founded in July 1990 by David Steward and Jim Kavanaugh. Its headquarters are based in St.Louis Missouri in the United States Of America. David Steward chairs the executive board while Jim kavanaugh is the Chief executive officer.
The company boosts of a workforce of more than 2200 employees throughout the world and annual revenue ...

RE: McGraw-Hill Companies Inc., Case Study

Reader’s Digest – Executive summary
This case examines the New York-based provider of global services that range from the publishing of textbooks and other educational material, to providing financial market services, and the business information markets. The McGraw-Hill Company is in the business of providing credit ratings, publishing textbooks, and has a major rand in radio and television broadcasting. They operated in three distinct segments in the global market that include, Financial Services, Information & Media, and Education with companies such as, Standard & Poor’s, McGraw-Hill Publishers, McGraw-Hill Constructions, Aviation Week, S&P Capital and S&P Indices, J.D Power & Associates, and ...

Heineken Case Study

Introduction
With more than 170 international premiums, regionally, locally and speciality in beers, Heineken has established strong leading portfolios of beer brands. The company was established back in 1864 by Gerard Adriaan Heineken who purchased a brewery in Amsterdam. The company owns and manages varying varieties of beer brands with speciality beers ranging from Heineken, Amstel, Cruzcampo, Tiger, Zywiec, Birra Moretti, and Murphy’s and Star. The company operates in Europe, USA, Africa, Middle East and Asia Pacific. The company has acquired quite substantial shares within the beer industry based on various strategies that the company has enacted. The company ...

Redesign of Business Systems and Process

Introduction
The decline on retail sales growth and development for the Dairy Farm Group of Companies (DFG) trace its roots back in 1997. DFG a leading Hong Kong located food retailer that had established operations in various large cities in the Asia-Pacific region. Some of the reasons that attributed to the decline include economic crises that hit most of the Asian nations in the late 1997s, increased competition from the European and US retail chains that introduced their products to the Asian markets. The outcome of the competition impacted on DFG by the foreign stores witnessed the sales of ...

A briefing document to the directors of The Creative Agency on the 2012 Board Meeting

As you all know, The Creative Agency has been carrying its operations as a full service agency since you founded it in 2002. This method of operation has presented the business with a number of advantages over the years. One of them is that of being a one stop shop for clients. This means that clients have been obtaining all their advertising and marketing needs from The Agency. On the side of the clients, this saves them the effort of having to maintain a number of different agencies for their marketing and related needs. This has been a key attraction of clients to your ...

It seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time

The case is focused on major issues faced by Templeton Hardware while operating newly acquired businesses. The given case is a best example of poor organizational management. Templeton hardware was willing to expand its business in new products and services hence they acquired The Great Outdoors and Lodeston Landscapes.
Decisions for acquiring two companies were taken by the company in hurry and all the implementation and changes took place very quickly. The company changed the name of both the acquired companies from the great outdoors to Templeton Caravans and from Lodeston Landscapes to Templeton landscape solutions. Templeton planned to ...

Summary of the Analysis

The mission statement of the company is efficient because it states what Amazon is, what it does, and why it exists, which are critical features. It also provides a guideline for the pricing strategy of the corporation; for instance, its choice to offer the lowest prices for quality products makes it very attractive to online shoppers. The firm formulates and implements its grand strategies, such as pricing, integration, diversification, location, and pricing based on its vision and mission statements. The SWOT analysis reveals that it has significant strengths that give it a competitive edge over its competitors. It also ...

Introduction

The entrance in the sport apparel and footwear arena of Under Armour, a relatively young sports brand followed its founder, Kevin Plank’s mission to provide athletes with fabrics that would prevent the accumulation of sweat, allowing them to focus on their games. This is still the company’s mission today: “Our mission. To make all athletes better through passion, design and relentless pursuit of innovation” (Thompson 53; Under Armour official website). Mission statements should answer the question why the company exists, it should be short, memorable, inspiring, market focused, indicate what the company wants to be remembered for ...

Carvel Ice Cream, an American multinational entered the premium ice cream segment of the Chinese market in 1992. However, the Chinese Ice cream market was already flooded with stiff competition from foreign and domestic players. The company experienced some issues in attaining the desired market share and revenues and this case analysis focuses on the different aspects of marketing strategy for Carvel Ice Cream in China.

As the growing Chinese market seemed to attract major international companies during the late 20th century, there were some specific factors which attracted the multinational firms towards the country. These factors which created ...

Question One

The sales of the Lego’s movie themed products keyed to popular film franchises, such as Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, and Spiderman are performing well according to the company’s main shareholder and the Chief Executive Officer Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen who has served the company from 1979 to 2004 (Lego). The increased sales can be attributed to the increased number of alliances with Walt Disney Company and Lucas Films, which is the creator of the popular Star Wars Series. According to my opinion, I think this was the right strategy for the company to adopt considering the ...

LEGO is a Danish company that was founded in 1916. Now this company is very popular around the world thanks to the legendary bright construction toys that develop imagination of the children. However, LEGO has been experiencing a very large number of problems since the late 1990s. In the case study the central focus is given to the LEGO’s business strategy that failed to respond to the changed buying habits and globalization issues that significantly reshaped the toy industry. Some of the reasons of the LEGO’s failure include the decision to open one more own plant in ...

Background

LEGO Group is a Danish, family business. Typical of family enterprises, growth is substantial in early company lifecycle phases, only to plummet – rapidly – few years later. The specific causes for LEGO Group's rapid decline in sales (and hence market share) fall into five strategic areas: (1) macroeconomic variables, (2) brand identity, (3) supply chain management, (4) retailing strategy, and (5) product design & development. As shown in every growth indicator, most notably company's cash flows over 1995 – 2004, LEGO Group has witnessed not only sharp decline in sales growth but also, sadly enough for company's owners and executives, a risk ...

1. Introduction
Oman Oil Company (OCC) is one of the biggest commercial organizations of Oman, undertaken by the Government of the country. The company was set up in 1966, headquartered in Muscat, Oman (Oman-oil.com, 2016). Pursuing the investment opportunities in oil and gas and other energy sectors, Oman Oil Company has become one of the leading companies of Sultanate of Oman. Identifying the investment opportunities both inside and outside the country, the company has developed an impressive HRM to manage the organizational operations affirmatively. The HRM of the organization supports the employees to deliver their best performance for organizational ...

What should Joan Macey do with respect to pricing and distribution?

It can be conceived by comparing and evaluating the facts mentioned in the case, and figures revealed in Appendix – B that in both the best and the worst situations of the product effectiveness, Kathon MWX delivers better value for money to the customers. This means that the customers of Kathon MWX are satisfied and delighted with the efficacy and value of the product. This fact indicates that if the customers are contended with product value and efficiency, as well as, appreciate it more as compared to competitors and substitutes available in the market, then they will also be willing ...

Internal Environment Analysis

Value chain
Primary activities
Inbound Logistics
Ford utilizes the plant-centric approach that allows the suppliers to make multiple deliveries of the same parts to different plants. The storage involves input control and warehousing of all materials or different parts.

Operations

The company transforms the raw materials into finished goods while creating the most direct value in their manufacturing process. The manufacturing process is environmental conscious because it involves environmental management, sustainable mobility, efficient energy and oil consumption, and health and safety.

Outbound logistics

The company has adopted a build- to order fulfillment strategy to reduce the cost pressure from the rising stocks. ...

1. Joint ventures can be very unstable if the partnership is not properly established. For a company like GE, with a large amount of income to invest in new partnerships and new strategies, it can certainly be beneficial to build their own venture from scratch as a greenfield venture (Business Leadership Management, 2015). However, when GE was utilizing acquisitions and greenfield ventures, the economy was a very different animal than it is today. Today, the economy is much weaker than it was in the years prior to the 2008-2009 downturn; risk in the marketplace needs to be carefully considered and avoided by most ...

TALENT DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY FOR GREATSTONE

Introduction:
People are the first, and most important source of competitive advantage of any organization and construction industry does not have an exception. GreatStone is a building material company that is closely associated with the construction industry. Currently, the construction industry is facing enormous challenges and dealing with these challenges is not possible without a talented workforce. Therefore, talent development strategy for GreatStone’s talent management is pivotal. The need of this strategy becomes more obvious when organization have to face dynamic, changing, and complex environment. GreatStone has to face these situations because of unique projects, changing teams, fragmented processes, ...

Business operations are usually subject to various forces including the external factors that businesses have no control over. In that respect, businesses need to devise suitable strategies as a means of responding to the forces’ influence. That is applied as a means of enhancing firms’ performance and sustainability. With that view, this case analysis seeks to demonstrate how a region or a country’s economic aspects affects industries and businesses in terms of performance, value and strategies.

Synopsis and objectives

International trade is a key focus for countries in their bid to enhance growth and embrace globalization. In that respect, trade liberalization is increasingly becoming a crucial tool ...

Several factors are considered when deciding whether to develop a new information in-house or to go for outsourcing. Total Cost of Ownership or TOC is an important concept when making such a decision. A firm needs to consider various factors when deciding to build in-house software. Sometimes, the firm does not have enough human resource to develop and implement a system itself. Since, a firm that is into other main business does not have extra human resources to work on the development of a new information system and at the same time providing support to the existing system. This constraint leads to a lot of ...

Introduction

Complexity and overwhelming nature of issues to be coped with in some countries of the world calls forth the need to add extra dimensions to state’s combating the issues in terms of implementing its functions, and change existing systems and institutions. Social entrepreneurship represents a process by which citizens can either create or transform institutions to advance solutions to such issues, as poverty, illnesses, environment pollution, corruption and human rights abuses (Bornstein&Davis 1-2).

Analysis

The mission of the KickStart International that represents a bright example of social entrepreneurship initiative is “to get millions of people out of poverty quickly, cost-efficiently and ...

D. U. Singer Hospital Products Corp

Question one: Construct the nine elements of the plan identified above

Question two: Analyze the plan for potential problems
The above plan represents the stages that D.U. Singer Hospital would follow to develop a new product. The plan seems sufficient to come up with the perfect product as per the objectives of the organization, but it contains some problems that might hinder timely development of the product. Firstly, the plan only has the objective of developing a product, but lack rationale for coming up with the idea. The rationale would have been provided before the work breakdown structure in order to provide the main reason ...

SWOT ANALYSIS:

Strengths:
- An old and successful brand name
- Experience of working in emerging markets
- Knowledge of developing or growing economies
- Good financial backing
- Diversified company
- The company is experience high growth in sales, net income, and earnings per share
- 38% Market Share in the oral care industry
- Full variety of oral care product – In 2009 alone, Cottle-Taylor was able to sell 46% of all tooth brush sold in India

Weakness:

- Margin of the company falls on low-end products
- Weak distribution network in ...