Chapter 10 Groupon: Decisions! Decisions! Decisions! – Discussion Questions 1. What are the key decisions that Andrew Mason has made during Groupon’s brief history? How have these decisions influenced Groupon’s evolution as an Internet-based business? Andrew Mason’s key decisions during Groupon’s brief history have been the following. 1) The decision to form an internet based company. 2) The decision to offer coupons in the unique way at a group rate. 3) The first major key decision that Mason made
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Reed Supermarket was fighting to keep market share in Columbus‚ Ohio with a growing number of competitors. Currently holding 14% market share in 2010‚ their focus was to grab 16% in 2011 without expanding into new locations. Reed had to assess which business model could gain two percent market share by 2011. Reed had three options: a) continue with the model they have and hope customer loyalty will give them share; b) continue with the model they have but make some changes; or c) move to an every
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analysis; Recommendations that are based on your analysis; Report style – i.e. clear sections with headings and sub-headings; Logical conclusions. The troubled history of the Airbus A380 _______________________________________________ Operations in Practice: The troubled history of the Airbus A380 It is perhaps inevitable that a major new and complex product like a passenger aircraft will experience a few problems during its development. But the history of the Airbus A380 was a long and
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relationship between supermarkets with UK farmers that called oligopsony is a heated topic in the society. Some people hold the view that the advantages of oligopsony overweigh those disadvantages. Nevertheless‚ others believed that it is one way that UK farmers controlled by the supermarkets. It is natural that people come from different backgrounds will have various attitudes to the same issue. In the report‚ the advantages and disadvantages of oligopsony for both supermarkets and UK farmers are
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OPERATION MANAGEMENT Operation management is concerned with the bunch of activities that design and produces goods or services by the input-transformation-output process. (Slack 2001) Operation management can also be defined as the process of transforming different resources or inputs (labour‚ capital‚ machinery‚ land and buildings‚ materials and information) that are used in the operational activities of an organisation to the output (value added product and services)for the customers in a controlled
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IBO 4001 BUSINESS DISERTATION Student Name: Damon Boughen Student Number: 20181689 Course: BA/Hons Business Studies Supervisor: Tim Peacock Dissertation Title: An examination of the use of operations management within the British supermarket industry as a means to develop a competitive advantage. Hand in date: 21st April 2008 Acknowledgements This dissertation could not have been completed without the effort of several lectures at the
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Financial management decisions: 1. Capital budgeting (investment) – the whole process of analyzing projects and deciding whether they should be included in the capital budget. Spending capital on assets that will yield highest return for comp over desired time period What to buy so that comp will gain most value 2. Capital structure (financing) – the manner in which a firm’s assets are financed; that is‚ the right side of balance sheet. Capital structure is normally expressed as the percentage
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OM 1. As a service business‚ the operations management activities of an airline company have nothing in common with the operations management activities within a bicycle manufacturing company. True False 2. Operations managers are responsible for managing systems that produce goods and/or provide services. True False 3. Effectiveness refers to achieving intended goals whereas efficiency refers to minimizing cost and time. True False 4. Operations‚ marketing‚ and finance function
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NETFLIX OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT REPORT TABLE OF CONTENTS Executive Summary 2 Introduction .3 Netflix Process Strategy 3 Competitive Climate ..5 Competitive Strategy .7 Inventory Management 10 Supply-Chain Management .11 Management Critique 12 Future Innovation ..14 Conclusion .16 APPENDIX Exhibit 1 Process
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Step 2 : Review the current process 10 3) Step 3 : Speak to job holders about the current process 11 4) Step 4 : Draft process maps based on the current process and obtain job holder feedback 12 5) Step 5 : Feedback review workshop 12 6) Step 6 : Hold a process improvement Workshop 13 7) Step 7 : Draft new and improved process flows 14 8) Step 8 : Provide the client with the final documentation for review 14 9) Step 9 : Process roll out 15 10) Step 10 : Ongoing Review and recommendations
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