How Business Intelligence is in today ’s global competition Jack Cheung 5-Mar-2013 • What’s Business Intelligence • How BI provides business values to enterprises • Popular BI applications – – – – – – BI reports and dashboards Budget planning Financial consolidation and reporting What-if analysis Balanced scorecard Data mining • Challenges of implementing BI projects • Hot BI topics in 2013 – Big data – Cloud – Social networking • BI career development • References • Q&A What’s
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Case Analyses - The Global Baby Bust 1. What are the implications of the global baby bust for marketers of consumer goods? * A marketplace responding to an aging population For a number of the challenges associated with aging‚ consumers can find a helpful ally in the many manufacturers and product designers who are catering to "niche markets" (gearing their products specifically to address age-related needs) and enhancing their traditional products targeted to seniors and older boomers.
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1) How could the company have erred so badly in its estimates of spending patterns of European customers? * The idea was market Euro Disney as a complete holiday package and encouraging people to stay in the hotels and eat all meats in the complex. * While setting prices the Company was unable to estimate spending patterns of European consumers and competitors price alternatives. Due to the location advantage and incredible accomodation prices consumers prefer to stay in the city center
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Case 7: Global Apparel Industry 1) How did globalization change the ‘rule of the game’ in the apparel industry? What it means for a company like Zara? Traditionally‚ national retailers outsource apparel production‚ via global brokers‚ to thousands of small apparel makers. Globalization created options for countries and companies in the apparel industry. Improving technology‚ sourcing‚ and production systems let innovative apparel makers compress cycle time. Shortening process time increases efficiencies
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in profit. Canny Gabrial Castle v Volume Sales(p200): Canny Gabrial argued that the 2 companies were joint ventures Decision: Agreement was partnership Polkinghorne v Holland(p205): Was the giving of financial advice outside the ordinary business of the law firm‚ such that the partners would be jointly liable Decision: Held that the firm was liable for the actions of hollan’s son Lec 5 Chap 13 Balfour v Balfour(256): At the time of the agreement‚ did the parties intend the arrangement
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440 International Buisness Name of the case: Global Software Piracy Prepared by: xxxx Date 16-03-2010 Executive Summary: This case is taking software piracy under the light that explained at the end of the third chapter of the book International Business environments and operations by Daniels in the 11th edition. Software piracy is the mislicensing‚ unauthorized reproduction and illegal distribution of software‚ whether for business or personal use. When someone copies software
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Harvard Business Case Analysis How would you categorize Kearney’s commitment to the company? How might you change or maintain this commitment? Eugene Kearney is very committed to Old Colony Associates (OCA). Kearney is committed in that he has been with the company for 13 years‚ loves going to work every day and aspires to maintain a higher level management position. However‚ he clearly needs to make improvements to his current level of commitment to OCA. Kearney needs to realize that commitment
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1. Introduction This essay will focus on the case analysis of the political economy in South Korea and how it has influenced the foreign direct investment (FDI) in South Korea after the global financial crisis (GFC) in 2007. It will give a brief introduction of what the political economy is. And then a case study will be provided about the political system‚ the legal system and the economic system in South Korea and the interconnectedness of these three systems and their influence on the environment
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The Satyam Computer Services embarrassment was a corporate shock that happened in India in 2009 where official Ramalinga Raju conceded that the association’s records had been contaminated. The Global corporate gathering was staggered and scandalized when the director of Satyam‚ Ramalinga Raju surrendered on 7 January 2009 and conceded that he had controlled the records by US$1.47-Billion. In February 2009‚ CBI expected control over the examination and recorded three charge sheets (on April 7‚ 2009
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general retail and apparel businesses are struggling while footwear and furniture have been flourishing. Its apparel business has dropped in earnings from $6.7M in 1986 to $2.0M in 1988. This represents a -19.70% drop in earnings as a percentage of total Interco earnings from 1987 to 1988. The general retail business has been stagnant. Its earnings slightly increased while its business has not grown much. Therefore‚ since the overall performance of the company is improving‚ although some divisions are
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