RESEARCH IN MOTION MANAGING EXPLOSIVE GROWTH In the January of 2008‚ Research in Motion (RIM) is standing at the strategic juncture where important decisions need to be taken regarding global expansions. The biggest strategic issue it faces is to carry over yesteryears’ growth to next level through sustainable innovation at global level. Although its R&D expenditure has grown 6 times in the last four years‚ the ratio of R&D expenditure to sales has been halved. This ratio shows RIM is
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Otis Elevator Case 9/7/12 Otis’s management made vast improvements in their corporate vision to obtain a strategic advantage over their competitors through the introduction of OTISLINE and their e*Logistics programs. Otis’s George Davis urged the company to create a centralized customer service system which would allow them to introduce the concept of 24 hours 7 days a week to their customers. OTISLINE was mainly set up in order to increase customer satisfaction as a result of only having a
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ANALYSIS OF GOME ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES : COMPETING FOR CHANNEL LEADERSHIP Parties involved in case: Gome – Leading specialized home appliance chain Vs The Color Television Price Alliance (9 core members including Konka‚ TCL‚ Hisense‚ Skyworth‚ Prima‚ Rowa‚ LG‚ Panda and Westlake) Problem Statement: The color television manufactures have joined hands to form an alliance and decided to control the prices of the color television in the China market. The purpose of this alliance is to
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MARKETING 611 SECTION 005 CITIBANK INDIA CASE Learning Team A5: Mohammad Al-Ali‚ Greta Carlson‚ Patricia Ligon‚ Scott Schultz‚ Mike Xu‚ Max Young Word Count: 1496 In assessing the marketing strategy of Citibank India’s credit card business‚ Harpreet Grewal is faced with two choices: maintain the current strategy‚ with its higher margins but shrinking growth opportunities‚ or expand into new target segments/geographies with their attendant challenges and uncertainties. He would likely
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Is Investing in CSR profitable to business? At any juncture when an organization goes past simply legitimate compliances and emphatically engages in activities that seem to more extensive social good which is for the most part outside the diversions of the firm and is more customized towards the more extensive social responsibility‚ the firm is said to have embraced the concept of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) (McWilliams et al.‚ 2006). The terms corporate social responsibility (CSR)‚ corporate
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Wei Yan BMGT440 Flowers Industries Case Summary Flowers Industries Incorporated is a fortune 500 company‚ headquartered in Thomasville‚ Georgia. They produce a variety of branded baked foods‚ snacks‚ and convenience foods. The company philosophy says “we don’t want to be the biggest food company; we simply want to be the most profitable.” This goal shows that the company is incentive is to please investors rather than focus on customer service. In March 1985‚ Marty Wood‚ the senior VP and CFO
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how big or small‚ make a major impact on a work of art. Details keep the viewer’s attention longer for them to be able to appreciate the piece even more. The way artists use these techniques is their way of expressing a story or idea. The Terracotta calyx-krater‚ currently on display at the Metropolitan Art Museum‚ is a perfect example of how detail goes a long way in any art form. With this krater‚ although huge in size‚ only the most ambitious craftsmen would take it upon themselves to decorate ()
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1.) The Goodner’s Huntington sales office should have implemented the three following objectives: 1. Financial Reporting Objective- This makes sure that the financial report is reliable and free of fraudulent reporting and also deals with the safeguarding of assets from unauthorized use. 2. Operations Objective- This covers business strategy and tactics and the effectiveness and efficiency of operations. 3. Compliance Objective- This makes sure that the company is in compliance
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Beauty of a Flower “We can complain because rose bushes have thorns‚ or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses. - Abraham Lincoln” Most important living organism other than human beings are animals and plants. Flowers and weeds have a huge role in life that they tend to play. Flowers and weeds are completely different in which they grow to reproduce or grow to destroy. Knowingly that weeds also reproduce. Flowers are known to be a brightly colored and conspicuous example of such a part of
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The Soldier: Rupert Brooke - Summary and Critical Analysis The Soldier is a sonnet in which Brooke glorifies England during the First World War. He speaks in the guise of an English soldier as he is leaving home to go to war. The poem represents the patriotic ideals that characterized pre-war England. It portrays death for one’s country as a noble end and England as the noblest country for which to die. In the first stanza (the octave of the sonnet) stanza‚ he talks of how his grave will
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