SIBM Pune | Business Strategy Assignment-1 | Priyanka Pandit‚ Roll no-34131 | | Marketing-A | 2/16/2012 | Environment analysis and SWOT analysis for Aakash tablet and future strategies for Aakash tablet | The vendors for the Aakash tablet are Datawind and the development of the tablet was carried out by Datawind in association with IIT-Jodhpur (Rajasthan). SWOT analysis: Strengths: * It has powerful specifications and great features: * The phone display is very good
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Assume the taxpayer is in the 28% marginal tax bracket for ordinary income and 15% for qualifying capital gains and dividends in all tax years. The selected investment will be liquidated at the end of five years. The alternatives are: Taxable Corporate Bond yielding 6% before tax‚ and the interest can be reinvested at 6% before tax. The taxable bond and reinvested earnings will accumulate at an after-tax rate of 4.32% [(1 – .28) × .06] to equal $12‚355 at the end of 5 years [$10‚000 × (1.0432)5
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Corporate culture is defined as: "the moral‚ social‚ and behavioral norms of an organization based on the beliefs‚ attitudes‚ and priorities of its members." Every organization has its own unique culture or value set; however‚ most organizations do not consciously try to create a certain culture. The culture of the organization is typically created unconsciously‚ based on the values of the top management or the founders of an organization. Southwest Airlines expends a lot of energy in maintaining
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case examines the Human Resource Management system at American Airlines and its role in the airline’s past and continued success. The case takes us through a time line from 1980 to 1992 of the company; of how the growth of the company was followed by changes in the strategy‚ changes in the HR policies at different time and finally their effect and impact on the employees and the company as whole. Events 1. 1978: Deregulations of the airline industry. 2. 1980: AA’s growth plans called for ore planes
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CHAPTER 6 STRATEGY FORMULATION: CORPORATE STRATEGY Corporate Strategy Corporate strategy deals with three key issues facing the corporation as a whole: 1. Directional strategy- the firm’s overall orientation toward growth‚ stability‚ or retrenchment 2. Portfolio strategy- the industries or markets in which the firm competes through its products and business units 3. Parenting strategy- the manner in which management coordinates activities‚ transfer resources‚ and cultivates
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Corporate Strategy Analysis Kayla Colombo MGT230 November 10th‚ 2014 Ronald Sprague Corporate Strategy Analysis The four basic alternatives when using corporate strategy in the planning function of management are concentration‚ vertical integration‚ concentric diversification‚ and‚ conglomerate diversification. After viewing the Destination CEO videos regarding Coco-Cola‚ Southwest Airlines‚ VF Corporation‚ and‚ Xerox‚ I can easily identify the strategy used by each CEO. Coca-Cola CEO Neville Isdell
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Alaska Airline & Corporate Culture A unique cultural characteristic of Alaska Airline would be the benefits they allot their employees. After 90 days of working with Alaska Airline‚ an employee earns benefits which allows him or her to fly anywhere at anytime with 1 other individual. In addition to this‚ the employee is given 6 “buddy passes” each year which allows the employee to give 6 roundtrip tickets to people other than himself or the 1 person he chooses to travel with. The best part
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performance). The desire to be promoted and earn enhanced pay may also motivate employees. Staff Training: No matter how automated an organization or a library may be‚ high productivity depends on the level of motivation and the effectiveness of the workforce. Staff training is an indispensable strategy for motivating workers. The library organization must have good training programme. This will give the librarian or information professional opportunities for self-improvement and development to meet
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Southwest Airlines in 2010: Culture‚ Values and Operating Practices 1. Has the AirTran acquisition make good strategic sense for Southwest? For the past 40 years Southwest Airlines has been known as the market share leader in domestic flight travel in the United States. The company has always been known for excelling in differentiating themselves among other low-fare carriers by providing a reliable product and an excellent customer service. Moreover‚ Southwest has also proven to be a profitable
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Current Corporate-level Strategies Fedex emphasizes on employees being the main competitive advantage that they hold. Fedex strongly believes that there is a strong relationship between pay and performance. The year 2015 saw higher rewards given to its employees than 2014 due to their higher adjusted earnings (FedEx Annual Report‚ 2015‚ pg 4). Rewarding of employees is an important part of the Fedex culture as well as the People-Service-Profit philosophy. It is a well worked strategy because it enables
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