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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identify and remove cause of defect and errors in business processes and manufacturing. Burger King is a company that needs to adopt Sigma into their strategic planning process because this will improve the company’s relationship with their consumer and help bring the company on the same level with McDonald’s. This paper will discuss why Six Sigma is the best methodology and why it should be incorporated into Burger King strategic planning process. Six Sigma is a disciplined‚ data-driven approach
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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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Die twee mededingende kitskos-franchises wat ek gekies het om mekaar te vergelyk in hierdie taak‚ is Steers en Burger King. Ek het hulle gekies omrede hulle baie dieselfde is ( spesialiseer albei in hamburgers ) maar daar is tog verskille wat die franchises anders maak. Daar kan dus gesê word dat albei franchises kompeteer om ‘n mededingende voordeel in ‘n gedeelde mark te probeer skep. Ek gaan ‘n vergelykende studie oor die twee franchises doen waarin ek hul vergelyk in die volgende areas : Bemarking
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January 29‚ 2013 Intro to Marketing Marketing Strategies Assignment * McDonald’s * Wendy’s * Burger King 1. What age group is each targeting? * For McDonald’s the age group the restaurant is targeting will be from anywhere to 24-38 with children. * For Wendy’s the age group the restaurant is targeting the 24 to 49 year age group. * For Burger King the age group is targeting will be more for everyone from children up to the age of 50 year of age or older.
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cientific management was a theory developed by Frederic Winslow Taylor(1856-1915) who was named “the father of scientific management”. Scientific management is a theory that indicates each worker should be trained in one specialized part only to simplify the jobs so they could perform at their best ability in order to increase productivity. After years of experiment and examining in the field of management‚ Taylor proposed four principles of scientific management. (Internet centre of management
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China Buffet vs. Burger King Dirty Dining Today there are more and more reports of dirty dinning in so many fast food restaurants. Any time a person decides to eat out in any type of fast food restaurant they are taking a big risk‚ and stand a chance of getting sick from the food that they eat. All fast food restaurants have their own little dirty secrets. Some are clean whereas some are filthy and should be shut down. There are several shows on television today that show how nasty
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Burger King: Promoting a Food Fight ALL ABOUT THE CASE CHALLENGING CONVENTIONAL WISDOM Events: 2003 and 2004 2003 – Outcome of BK’s performance and its competitors - it turned out that: - MC Do (No. 1)‚ reported 9% sales jump to a total of $22.1 billion - BK (No. 2)‚ sales slipped about 5% to $7.9 billion - Wendy (No. 3)‚ had spiked 11% to $7.4 billion‚ putting it in a position to overtake BK 2004 – Burger King CEO Grad Blum’s move
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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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