Assessment Item 2 – Assignment 1 Organisational strategy and IS/IT management Essay 2500 words Value 25% Task Select a large‚ multinational organisation that has succeeded in effectively aligning its business and how IS/IT infrastructure and IS/IT projects have specifically supported the overall business strategy of the organisation and identify where they have also been a catalyst in actually enabling and creating new business strategy. Make an evaluation of the degree the selected organisation’s
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It has said that Sales Ethics is an oxymoron. Do you agree? Discuss this statement. Oxymoron is defined as a figure of speech which enforces terms which may seem contradictory. Are sales ethics controversy? Business Ethics describes the moral content of behaviour practiced within a certain organisation (Hair‚ J. F‚ Anderson‚ R. A‚ Mehta‚ R‚ and Babin‚ B. J.) It is the study of how people with business relationships react when they face a particular situation with moral consequences. Trust is a major
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management The concept of strategy ➢ Strategy is the great work of organization. In situations of life or death it is the Tao of survival or extinction. Its study cannot be neglected. ----SUN TZU‚ The Art of War.2500 B.C ➢ Strategy is about winning. ➢ Strategy is not a detailed plan or program of instructions‚ it is a unifying theme that gives coherence and direction to the actions and decisions of an individual or an organization. Characteristic of a winning strategy ➢ Goals that
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OBJECTIVE OF THE REPORT To observe the nature and setup of the organization so as to determine the performance level of the sales managers and how they carry out their marketing functions by laying emphasis on communications. HYPOTHESIS How does communication help the sales managers to plan and implement the sales strategies? METHODOLOGY The method applied for this research based on Causal-Comparison as it investigates a cause and effect relationship between two or more variables‚
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The term Sales Promotion broadly refers to all those promotional activities which are undertaken to stimulate interest‚ trial or purchase of a product by the end user or other intermediaries in between. Besides advertising and personal selling‚ all other activities undertaken to promote a product can be classified under sales promotion! | |According to the Institute of Sales Promotion‚ "Sales Promotion comprises that range of techniques used to attain sales or marketing objectives in a cost effective
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................................. 2 Creating sales organizational structures ....................................................................................................... 3 Gaining greater job ownership and commitment from salespeople ............................................................ 4 Shifting sales management style from commanding to Coaching................................................................ 4 Leveraging for sales success .....................................
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Essay on the Nature of the Sales Environment. The purpose of this essay is to analyse the key aspects of sale environment‚ including the international sale and legal and ethical issues. Based on the above this essay will first look at the importance of selling environment in the UK economy‚ it then discus and analyse the techniques of sales control and measurements for evaluation‚ supported with practical examples. Every business in the world has some certain unique features‚ which has to be
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industry figures serve as a guide for comparison. Too large an inventory may not be justified because the turnover does not warrant investment. On the other hand‚ because products are not available to meet demand‚ too small an inventory may minimize sales and profits as customers go somewhere else to buy what they want where it is immediately available. Minimum inventories based on reordering time need to become important aspects of buying activity. Carrying costs‚ material purchases‚ and storage
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It has been said that sales ethics is an oxymoron. Do you agree? Discuss this statement. Do you agree that sales ethics is an oxymoron? Repeatedly‚ this statement has been a dispute amongst business enthusiast for decades. For this essay‚ oxymoron is a figure of speech described as a conjoined pair of two obvious contradictory such as pretty ugly‚ living dead‚ pretty ugly‚ jumbo shrimp etc. To kick off with‚ sales ethics is the application of ethical values to sales behaviour (Clive 2011). Ethical
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Revenue and sales maximization Revenue maximization Maximizing sales revenue is an alternative to profit maximization and occurs when the marginal revenue‚ MR‚ from selling an extra unit is zero. The notion that business firms (especially those operating in the real world) are primarily motivated by the desire to achieve the greatest possible level of sales‚ rather than profit maximization. On a day-to-day basis‚ most real world firms probably do try to maximize sales rather than profit. For firms
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