Northeastern University College of Professional Studies Course MGT 4750 – Business Strategy (Intensive) Key Number 20571 Time and Place Winter 2011 January 10 to April 2‚ 2011 On Line Instructor Fred Kinch Office telephone: 978-263-5327 kinch.associates@comcast.net My background is posted under the Faculty Profile section on Blackboard. Lead Instructor The lead instructor for this course is Dr. Ray Kinnunen‚ who is responsible for the course content and design
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[Tangible] Baidu has a strong performance of $28.9 million in terms of return on assets (Ireland‚ Hoskisson‚ Hitt‚ p291). It was largely contributed by its strategic acquisition of businesses‚ assets and technologies that complemented its existing business. For instance‚ Baidu bought over the domain name of hao123.com. Technological resources [Tangible] Baidu focuses on searches in Chinese. This language requires two bytes to store each character as opposed to English. There is a key difference
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Week 4. Business Strategy Chapter 5: A Dynamic Model of Industry Structuring. Objectives: • Introduce a dynamic model of industry competition and evolution. • Offer several propositions about the way industries will evolve based on this dynamic model‚ focusing specifically on the likely actions of new entrants to an industry and the responses of incumbent firms. • Illustrate how this dynamic model can be used to analyze industries. • Emphasize the managerial implications of this dynamic model
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BCS outcome 2 points Q1 Indicate that candidates know what organizational culture is (although an explicit definition such as “the way we do things around here “is not required) Make it clear that candidates know what shared values and taken for granted assumptions 默认的 are (shared values are the norms of behavior which run throughout the company – they can been seen as high profile symbols and may be deliberately fostered by senior management; taken-for-granted assumptions are more informal
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Student Answer: Has a sponsor or customer. Has interdependent tasks. Utilizes various resources. All of the above are project attributes. Instructor Explanation: Chapter 1‚ page 4-6. Points Received: 5 of 5 Comments: 2. Question : (TCO A) Which step of the project life cycle produces all of the project deliverables? Student Answer: Initiating Planning Performing Closing Instructor Explanation: Chapter 1‚ page 9; Lecture Week 1. Points
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Contents Part 1 Introduction 3 1.1 Business Objective 3 Part 2 Company Performance 4 2.1 Round 1 4 2.1.1 Discrepancy analysis 4 2.2 Round 2 6 2.2.1 Business Strategy 6 2.2.2 Round 2 Forecast 7 2.2.3 Discrepancy Analysis 7 2.3 Round 3 8 2.3.1 Business Strategy 8 2.3.2 Round 3 Forecast 9 2.3.3 Discrepancy Analysis 9 2.4 Round 4 9 2.4.1 Business Strategy 9 2.4.2 Round 4 Forecast 10 2.4.3 Discrepancy Analysis 10 2.5 Key Performance Indicators 11 2.6 Performance Evaluation
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1. Business strategy analysis Strategy analysis enables the analyst to understand the underlying economics of the firm and the industry in which the firm competes. Involves 3 key steps: 1. Industry analysis What economic factors drive the industry choice? Impact on profitability? 2. Competitive strategy How has the company positioned itself in the industry? 3. Corporate strategy Can the company create value across the range of its business? (Ability to exploit synergies‚ minimisation
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Student name: Course title: Business culture and strategy SCN: Outcome No.1-5 Group: Access name： Report for Business Cultural & Strategy of J D Wetherspoon company Date: Content I. Introduction 2 II. Discussion 2 Section 1 External Environment 2 SPELT analysis 2 SWOT analysis 4 The management use on how to conduct a SWOT analysis 5 Section 2 Organization culture 6 Business culture: shared values & taken for granted assumption 6 Four types for
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Levels of strategy • Corporate strategy (eg. Virgin‚ Nestle) Strategic Management Business‐level strategy Different ways of competing at the level of the individual Business Unit (SBU) How can competitive advantage be sustained? Hyper‐competition – Which industries/markets should we be in? – How is the corporate portfolio managed? • Business strategy (eg. Virgin Atlantic‚ Nestle babyfood) – Tactics used by an SBU to compete in the market • Generic strategies and how to sustain these
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Microbiology Lab Quiz #2 Study Guide Exercise 9 -- The Gram Stain Compare and contrast simple and differential staining techniques. Simple Staining Simple staining is useful in determining the basic morphology of an organism. Simple staining involves only one reagent i.e. crystal violet‚ basic fuchsin‚ or methylene blue. Simple dyes used to stain bacteria have a positive charge cationic (+)‚ therefore‚ they are attracted to the bacteria that are usually negatively charged anionic (-) Depends
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