retailing and purchasing concept in which the range of products purchased by a business organization or sold by a retailer is broken down into discrete groups of similar or related products; these groups are known as product categories (examples of grocery categories might be: tinned fish‚ washing detergent‚ toothpastes). It is a systematic‚ disciplined approach to managing a product category as a strategic business unit. The phrase "category management" was coined by Brian F. Harris. Category management
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“Most Admired Company in Us” and “Most Admired Company in the World”. It has companies in the field of electricity production‚ electric appliance‚ lighting‚ aircraft engines‚ medical system‚ and diesel locomotives. GE has 43 independent SBU (Strategic Business Unit). Despite all these variations available there was steadfast growth in the company. The management practices in GE were considered as bellwether of American management practices. This was due to the procedures adopted by Jack Welsh.
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Software CTO‚ GE Healthcare; Paul Brown‚ VP & GM‚ Global Centers of Excellence‚ EMC Corporation; M. R. Rangaswami‚ Co-founder and CEO‚ Sand Hill Group; Nipun Mehta‚ Founder‚ ServiceSpace.org; Ayan Mukerji‚ SVP & Global Head of Media and Telecom Strategic Business Unit‚ Wipro Technologies; Sanjay Dhawan‚ President & CEO‚ Symphony Teleca Corp.; Ramesh Pillai‚ Senior Vice President‚ Global Head of Hitech
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LUCRATIVE COMMUNITY BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES ABSTRACT This paper outline strategy for FELDA‚ an organization that was once in mass poverty eradication programme of crop cultivation in palm oil and rubber‚ is in the midst of going through the next 50 years. From being social development of settlers‚ as well as new generation‚ FELDA needs to transform itself to a bigger role in tandem of its commercial arm was listed in 28th June 2012. This move was to concentrate and in line with the Strategic Reform Initiatives
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Organization: A social unit of people that is structured and managed to meet a need or to pursue collective goals. All Organizations are open systems--they affect and are affected by their environment. Division of Labor: Narrow specialization of tasks within a production process so that each worker can become a specialist in doing one thing‚ especially on an assembly line. Hierarchy of authority: Organization power structure. The amount of authority increases with each level higher a person
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housewares. In 2007‚ the company put sustainability at the heart of its business. In order to succeed‚ it would have to change the attitudes and the behavior of its shoppers. As a result‚ it launched Plan A which set out a five year plan involving 100 social and environmental commitments that were expected to shape the future of the company. Plan A would allow the company to resolve some of the big issues facing their business. They called it Plan A because there is “no B when it comes to conserving
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STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT Apple‚ Inc. Strategic Management Case Analysis Kait Vinson 4/18/2011 Vinson |1 STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT CASE ANALYSIS: APPLE INC. SECTION ONE: CORE PROBLEMS & ISSUES In the transition from Apple Computers‚ Inc. to Apple Inc. over the past decade‚ the company has faced many problems with its strategy in regards to navigating the personal computer industry. Some of the initial problems included the fact that all of the company’s computer products ran on different operating
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the secret firstly. WHAT WELCH HAS DONE Since Welch’s joining in GE‚ he initiated his first priority to restructure GE. Welch set up a new standard for each business to become #1 or #2‚ which resulted in the selling of scores of business and made GE more lean and agile. Then he chip away bureaucracy‚ including scrapped strategic system‚ eliminating sector level and reducing number of hierarchical levels. GE reduced employee from 404000 in 1980 to 292000 by 1989‚ while at the same time increased
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Products division. The position was newly created within Kensington’s Canadian office as a strategic business unit inside ACCO Brands Canada. MacLeod will report to Bob Hodan‚ President and General Manager of ACCO Brands Canada. MacLeod brings proven sales leadership to Kensington‚ with 20 years of experience building long-term opportunities and relationships within a global sales‚ marketing‚ and business development capacity. “We are extremely fortunate to have someone with MacLeod’s expertise
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directly from Group’s headquarters in Herzogenaurach‚ Germany. s. Also located here are the headquarters of brand adidas and the strategic business units for Running‚ Football and Tennis as well as the Research and Development Centre. Additional key corporate units are based in Portland‚ Oregon in the USA‚ the home of adidas America Inc. and where the strategic business units Basketball‚ Adventure and Alternative Sports are based. Reebok headquarters is located in Canton‚ Massachusetts and TaylorMade-adidas
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