Question one: The most important thing when identifying strategy is to distinguish it from operational effectiveness. For the failure to distinguish between operational effectiveness and strategy is in many cases the main cause to why a company can’t sustain their competitive advantage between its rivals. The mix up is understandable; they are both essential to superior performance‚ however in the same time they work in very different ways. Operational effectiveness is performing different activities
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sound in the air and it’s nothing like I’ve ever heard before. Jet carriers are the source of the strange sound as they zoom at impossible speeds above us. The carriers are a streak of black on the city and what I can make out; they’re nothing like the carriers I’m used to. Normal carriers begin to land on the roofs tops in the distance and that’s why there’s an echoing of marching boots. Order troops are being unloaded from those carriers or I guess. I can’t see
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Case Study of the Indian Ocean Tsunami On December 26‚ 2004‚ the Indian Ocean earthquake‚ or the Sumatra-Andaman earthquake‚ caused a tsunami that killed 230‚000 people and was recorded as the deadliest tsunami in known history. The earthquake was recorded as between 9.1 and 9.3 on the Richter scale‚ the second largest earthquake ever recorded. It was also recorded as the longest one‚ triggering earthquakes as far away as Alaska. Following the disaster‚ a worldwide effort raised billions of dollars
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The ocean is one of Earth’s most valuable natural resources. It provides food in the form of fish and shellfish—about 200 billion pounds are caught each year. It’s used for transportation—both travel and shipping. It provides a treasured source of recreation for humans. It is mined for minerals (salt‚ sand‚ gravel‚ and some manganese‚ copper‚ nickel‚ iron‚ and cobalt can be found in the deep sea) and drilled for crude oil. The ocean plays a critical role in removing carbon from the atmosphere and
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1. INTRODUCTION This report is a critical analysis on tax disclosure of two selected companies—GD Express Carrier Berhad (GDEX) and Bonia Corporation Berhad (BONIA) which falls under trading/services sector and consumer sector respectively. Analysis is based on the annual report 2015 of each company (extracted in the appendices). All detailed calculations are performed in the footnotes attached. GDEX‚ founded in 1997‚ focuses on two business segments‚ namely‚ Express delivery and Logistics. Primarily
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Business Telecommunications and Data Networks Wireless Carriers ADM 4378 Ge Liu (5308204) Jun Lu (6124927) Business Telecommunications and Data Networks Wireless Carriers Contents Executive Summary 2 Introduction 2 Company Overview 3 Rogers Communications Inc. 3 Product and Service 4 Bell Canada 8 Product and Service 9 TELUS Corporation 11 Product and Service 11 Competitive Environment 15 Subscribers and Revenue income 16 Distribution Channel 19 Market
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Conventional competitive strategy suggests that the company has to strive to outpace the rivals by offering a better solution to the existing problem. Blue Ocean strategy aims at redefining the problem itself. Whereas‚ Blue Ocean strategy encourages the companies to fetch away the red ocean competition via creation of an unoccupied niche where there is no threat to be defeated by competitors. It offers a company to reject the satisfaction of existing‚ and often decreasing
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Tsunami Case Studies Activities Attorney-General’s Department 2010 Contents Chile tsunami 27 February 2010 ............................................. 2 Samoa tsunami 29 September 2009 ....................................... 4 Solomon Islands tsunami 2 April 2007 ................................. 10 Indian Ocean tsunami‚ December 26‚ 2004.......................... 13 Papua New Guinea tsunami 17 July 1998 ............................. 20 Chile tsunami 27 February 2010 On the 27 February
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ACCT 805AE Case 4 Ocean Manufacturing‚ Inc The Osprey Group Feb 21‚ 2011 Q1. The client acceptance process can be quite complex. Identify five procedures an auditor should perform in determining whether to accept a client. Which of these five are required by auditing standards? First they should gather and examine all available financial information‚ such as tax returns‚ annual reports‚ the balance sheet‚ and income statement. This should be done so that the audit firm can do a quick initial
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Blue Ocean Strategy How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant http://www.blueoceanstrategy.com/ W. Chan Kim Renee Mauborgne Chapter One: The blue ocean strategy is best illustrated by the performance of Cirque du Soleil. Created in 1984 by a group of street performers‚ Cirque productions have been seen by almost 40 million people in 90 cities around the world. In less than 20 years‚ Cirque du Soleil has achieved revenue levels that took Ringling and Barnham
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