The ITC eChoupal Initiative Wednesday‚ January 23‚ 2013 Background: Soybeans and their derivatives constituted two-thirds of ITC’s agricultural business. ITC had an integrated presence throughout the entire value chain‚ from procurement to export. Farmers had traditionally relied on choupals‚ an informal assembly‚ as their only source of agricultural knowledge and sold soybeans at the closest market‚ or mandi‚ to traders employed by ITC. Despite success of soybean products in domestic and
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SCUDDER‚ STEVENS & CLARK Background Scudder‚ one of the nation’s first investment counseling firms‚ founded in 1919 by Theodore Scudder‚ Haven Clark‚ and Sydney Stevens‚ had performed a successful development until 1993. Especially in 1980s and the beginning of 1990s its mutual fund business was one of the fastest growing mutual fund families in terms of growing account numbers‚ asset size‚ and revenues. Meanwhile‚ thanks to corporate pension plan sponsors directing their funds to large sophisticated
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Business Management | What is diversity? | Sholunda Cruz Business Management 5/20/2011 Diversity is becoming an increasingly important factor in not only organizational life but organizations world-wide as well. As organizations are taking that leap into globalization there becomes a need to know about different cultures and how they function. Globalization has become a prominent factor in many companies. In order for companies to be able to compete they need to have a multicultural variety
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ModMeters Synopsis When the CEO launches two new strategic initiatives requiring integration across all business units‚ the organization – whose IT decisions have been largely delegated to its business units in proportion to their revenue generating capacity – now faces the dilemma of how to prioritize its IT projects in order to support the new strategic “enterprise” vision. Organization Chart Identify the Key Issues 1. CIO and CEO don’t agree on direction of company
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Steven Spielberg has an abundance of skills when it comes to producing and directing movies. His attention to detail is what grabs viewers‚ making them memorable and enjoyable. Using these skills as a Hollywood director/producer he brings to life‚ with storytelling‚ some of the most significant events in the world’s history‚ for instance slavery and the Second World War. Everybody understands‚ somewhat‚ these considerable events either from history books or their own research‚ but unless they lived
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CASE 14‚ PAGE 46 LGA INDUSTRIES: EMPLOYING UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS QUESTION: What factors appear to be affecting LGA Industries’ staffing practices? RESPONSE: The factors that appear to be affecting LGA Industries’ staffing practices are as follows: Limited workers available due to the company was located in a small town Most of the staff was immigrant workers and they did not have the appropriate documents to work. The employment application process was not handle properly The company did
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organize‚ they’re defining what work needs to get done and creating a structure that enables work activities to be completed efficiently and effectively by organizational members hired to do that work. As Starbucks continues its global expansion and pursues innovative strategic initiatives‚ managers must deal with the realities of continually organizing and reorganizing its work efforts. Structuring Starbucks Like many start—up businesses‚ Starbucks’ original founders organized their company around
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Martin Luther King Jr’s early life was really interesting! He was a civil rights activist who was born on January 15‚ 1929 in Atlanta‚ Georgia‚ U.S.A. He and his father were both born as Michael King‚ but after a 1934 trip to Germany to attend the Fifth Baptist World Alliance Congress in Berlin‚ the elder King changed both of their names to Martin Luther King in honour of the German reformer Martin Luther. As a child‚ Martin was friends with a white boy. When they turned six‚ the boy went to a school
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SWOT Analysis of Robert Mondavi case The global wine industry is estimated to be in size of $130 billion to $180 billion in retail sales which is attributed in three types of wine: Table wine (alcohol level 14%) and sparkling where Table wine accounted for the major share of the market. The table wine market is further divided into five principal segments: jug or commodity‚ popular premium ($3-7 per bottle)‚ super premium ($7 -14 per bottle)‚ ultra and luxury. The consumptions of premium wine kept
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2004 What Is a Case Study and What Is It Good for? JOHN GERRING Boston University T his paper aims to clarify the meaning‚ and explain the utility‚ of the case study method‚ a method often practiced but little understood. A “case study‚” I argue‚ is best defined as an intensive study of a single unit with an aim to generalize across a larger set of units. Case studies rely on the same sort of covariational evidence utilized in non-case study research. Thus‚ the case study method is correctly
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