I. How Do Businesses Compete? （Q1‚Q2) 1. Business strategies are primarily concerned with allocating resources across functional activities and product-markets to give the unit a sustainable advantage over its competitors. 2. The unit’s core competencies and resources‚ together with the customer and competitive characteristics of its industry‚ determine the viability of any particular competitive strategy. 3. Most SBUs pursue a single competitive strategy—one that best fits their market environments
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No witchcraft for sale Doris May Lessing (22.10.1919-17.11.2013.) She was a British writer‚ born in Iran. In 1925 the family moved to a farm in the British colony area of Africa. In the story “No witchcraft for sale” Lessing tells about a relationship between the Farquars‚ a Christian family and their servant Gideon‚ in a colonized Zimbabwe‚ and the native secrets‚ that no power can buy. The story is written with a 3rd person narrator with an omniscient point of view‚ where the happenings are
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Case – Sales Oranisation ABC & Company started manufacturing Soya Chunks at Bhopal in 1995. They put up a small Extractor Plant comprising of Mixer‚ Blender‚ Extractor‚ Driver at a cost of Rs. 15 Lacs. They were buying Soya powder from Indore. Initially the sales was in bulk. They used to sell in bags of 20 Kgs each only In 1997 Sales was 500 Tonnes amounting to approx Rs. 1 Crore. There were 1 Sales Manager and 2 Sales Executives. Mostly Sales was confirmed through the wholesale Market in
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Sales Promotion Sales promotion is any initiative undertaken by an organisation to promote an increase in sales‚ usage or trial of a product or service Sales promotions are varied. Often they are original and creative. Buy-One-Get-One-Free (BOGOF) - which is an example of a self-liquidating promotion. For example if a loaf of bread is priced at $1‚ and cost 10 cents to manufacture‚ if you sell two for $1‚ you are still in profit - especially if there is a corresponding increase in sales.
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Point of sale software gives business owners a convenient way of checking out customers and of recording sales. It can keep a record of the store inventory‚ updating it when an order is processed. It can also print out receipts‚ carry out credit card processing‚ track customers‚ etc. Point of sale software eases the flow at checkout terminals‚ while recording all the information that can help you make better business decisions. Point of sale software allows users to input via keyboard or mouse‚
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Prospect Theory Review This paper is written in order to compare and contrast two articles that were chosen from the social psychology field. I chose my topic as Prospect Theory. It is one of the theories related to decision making process. This theory not only supported in social psychology but also supported fields of economic‚ consumer choice‚ political science and marketing. Prospect theory explains that people
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REVIEW OF SOCIAL ECONOMY‚ VOL. LXII‚ NO. 2‚ JUNE 2005 Happiness Research: State and Prospects Bruno S. Frey and Alois Stutzer University of Zurich and CREMA - Center for Research in Economics‚ Management and the Arts Abstract This paper intends to provide an evaluation of where the economic research on happiness stands and in which interesting directions it might develop. First‚ the current state of the research on happiness in economics is briefly discussed. We emphasize the potential of happiness
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proposed system aims to provide the Grocery Store an effective and efficienct sales and Inventory System that will increase the production of the store. The proponents developed a system that will fit the needs of the users that has a specific task in the store. If also aims to provide the user to have easy and accurate information as they will use a computerized system. The proponents are now developing computerized sales and inventory for the store. The following will benefits from the study. MANAGER
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Sales and purchase: The terms ¨sales order¨ and ¨purchase order¨ are not interchangeable‚ they are two very different documents. A sales order‚ abbreviated in business as SO‚ comes from a business to a customer. By comparison‚ a purchase order comes from a business to a vendor. Both are fulfillment methods‚ the sales order representing outside sales‚ and the purchase order representing internal corporate goods or service requests. Sales orders and purchase orders are tools for tracking business
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Diploma in Sales & Marketing Management 2013 SAMR018 Assignment 1 SALES AND MARKETING 2013 TIME ALLOWANCE: MARKS TOTAL PAGES 10 Hours 100 11 INSTRUCTIONS 1. Assignments must be typed/written/either typed or written – the important measure is that they are easy to read (legible). 2. All work must be adequately and correctly referenced. 3. No more than 25% of the assignment may be copied from the original source(s) used‚ even if referenced correctly. 4. Begin each section on a new page. 5
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