After doing a bit of a research on the banking industry Value Chain (VC) I came across multiple references indicating that a generic VC for Banking is the opposite to the industrial VC (Figure 1 in the attachment). The Banking VC starts from the customer side‚ where the products are offered to the market‚ sold‚ provided to the customer and finally corresponding transaction is executed. I decided to look closely at one of our core businesses‚ Premier Consumer Credit‚ to evaluate activities within
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Machael Porter’s Value Chain SUPPORT ACTIVITIES Support activities assist the primary activities in helping the organisation achieve its competitive advantage. They include: Procurement: This department must source raw materials for the business and obtain the best price for doing so. The challenge for procurement is to obtain the best possible quality available (on the market) for their budget. Technology development: The use of technology to obtain a competitive advantage is very important
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Value Chain Analysis Inbound Logistic 1. Farm : Coffee Bean begins at the farm on coffee trees. After trees are planted‚ it takes between one and three years for the trees to bear coffee "cherries". Than the farmer will harvest the coffee trees to get cherries. After that‚ they will use coffee mills to process the product from cherry to bean. 2. Exporter : The coffee export process varied greatly depending on origin country and buyer. In some countries‚ beans were exported through government
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Strategic Value Chain Analysis Wednesday‚ December 04‚ 2013 8:48 AM "Competitive Advantage" 1986 Companies are not groups of people‚ they are sets of activities. There are 2 sets of activities: Cost and willingness to pay (WTP) PRIMARY: In-bound / raw material ==> Process ==> Marketing ==> Service SECONDARY: Accounting‚ Exec Management‚ CIA Cost of distribution drivers (for cinnamon buns): # of stops (greater # raises cost) # of packages they drop per stop (greater # lowers
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negative beta implies that security A would stabilize the returns on a portfolio since the returns on A are negatively correlated to the market. The riskiness of a portfolio is determined by its beta value. Security A has a negative beta (-0.5)‚ which makes it less risky when compared with positive beta value for security B (0.5). In addition‚ if we consider a standalone risk‚ standard deviation plays an important role. It is used as an indicator of risk‚ security A has 30% standard deviation which
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But while water itself may be simple‚ the business of bottled water is not. It is big‚ complicated and competitive‚ having grown into an almost $ 9 billion a year business in the United States. The business has been built in large part on savvy marketing‚ aimed at convincing consumers that not all water is created equal. The pitch seems to have worked. In the last 30 years‚ bottled water has emerged from virtually nothing to become the No. 2 beverage in the United States‚ behind soft drinks
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Did you know that more than one billion bottles of water end up in California’s landfills each year‚ taking 1‚000 years to biodegrade and leaking toxic additives such as phthalates into the groundwater? Bottled water should be banned from schools all across the U.S. because studies have shown that only about 14% of bottled water makes it to the recycle bin. The other 86% are left to be littered‚ wasted‚ landfilled‚ or incinerated. Bottled water can be found in classrooms by students or teachers.
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Bottled Water and the Environment Bottled water has become an important aspect of human lives. For some of us‚ it’s important to the point where we can say “I can’t live without bottled water!”. This is mainly because of its convenience and the idea of bottled water being more “healthy” than tap water. Bottled water may be easily accessible and maybe even tastier than tap water‚ but is it better for ourselves and the environment in the long run? The consumption of bottled water has increased tremendously
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Production and Operation Management Group IV BSEM 3-2 Product Design Parameters Members: Bulaong‚ Jennifer E. Velasquez‚ Pauline L. Fernandez‚ Rose Ann F. Escoto‚ Gellian Prof. Rizza Valdez Nine Factors to Consider When Determining Your Price 1. Your Costs If your rate doesn’t include enough just to break-even‚ you’re heading for trouble. The best thing to do is sum up all your costs and divide by the number of hours you think you can bill a year. Whatever you do‚ DON’T
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Economic value of water A Multi-Criteria Analysis approach Introduction Water is an essential resource that has a multiplicity of use in domestic‚ Industrial‚ agricultural‚ hydropower generation‚ mining‚ environmental etc activities but the present unsustainable use and mismanagement in the Kafue Basin of Zambia has put pressure on the resource and conflicts among stakeholders have emerged due to the diminishing quality and quantity of the water from the main source- the Kafue River. The
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