OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY RESEARCH & ANALYSIS PROJECT RESEARCH AND ANALYSIS REPORT The Business and Financial Performance over a Three Year Period Of “Lucky Cement Limited” [pic] WORD COUNT: 6‚483 words Presented By: YASIR FARHAN Registration number: 1345016 November 2010 TABLE OF CONTENT |Contents |Page No. | | |
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in developing a competitive strategy. The concept was first introduced by Michael Porter in his 1985 book “Competitive Advantage.” A value chain is a set of activities that an organization carries out to create value for its customers. Porter proposed a general-purpose value chain in which he felt it was important for companies to examine all of their activities and see how they’re connected. According to Porter‚ going through the chain of organization activities will add more value to the product
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Volume : 2 | Issue : 1 | Jan 2013 • ISSN No 2277 - 8179 Research Paper Commerce A study on Quality of Work Life of Cement Industry in Ariyalur District G. Susila Dr. R. Mathivanan K. Maruthadurai ABSTRACT KEYWORDS : Quality of work life‚ Total life space‚ social relevance‚ Quality of work life feeling‚ stakeholders. Research in commerce‚ Bharathiar University‚Coimbatore. Principal ‚ Bharathiar University college Arts &Science‚ Sivagiri ‚ Erode (DT)638109 Assistant professor
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Kingdom. It is the world’s second largest company by 2011 revenues and one of the six oil and gas "supermajors". Shell is also one of the world’s most valuable companies. Shell is vertically integrated and is active in every area of the oil and gas industry‚ including exploration and production‚ refining‚ distribution and marketing‚ petrochemicals‚ power generation and trading. It also has major renewable energy activities‚ including in bio-fuels‚ hydrogen‚ solar and wind power. It has operations in
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Industry Analysis The course is based on the ability of students to define their business‚ conduct an effective industry analysis‚ and identify the "key success factory" for firms competing in the industry. Such industry analysis is based on: A. DEFINE THE BUSINESS. The boundary for industry analysis is the markets and products that describe the domain of the industry. Once you understand the business segment that is to be analyzed‚ identify the capabilities required to participate in that industry
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warner has primarily a ‘Narrow approach’ Porter suggest companies with a narrow approach are considered as “cost leaders” continuing to say “these are Firms choosing to serve broad markets and to derive advantage through low costs” Porter‚ M.E. (1991). Time Warner doesn’t just seek the status of “cost leader” they also purse “focus strategies” Porter states “these are firms targeting narrow market segments and by emphasizing either low costs or uniqueness” Porter‚ M.E. (1991). On the other hand‚
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troubled into how to marketing themselves. The industry I would like to dedicate is a narrow defined particular segment of design agency industry - not the normal agency companies that only taking orders and contracting‚ but specifically designer representation agency who help designers on branding and promoting. Following is my SWOT analysis to this niche industry. And afterwards there are profiles for three representative companies in this field‚ industry leader‚ emerging company and company at risk
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Case Study: Ordinary Portland Cement INTRODUCTION • Cement – Is a material with adhesive and cohesive properties which is capable of bonding mineral fragments into a compact-solid whole • Ordinary Portland Cement (OPC) – Is a hydraulic cement. It is used in the making of concrete with property of setting and hardening‚ of which when the chemical properties reacts with water. OPC Does not disintegrate in water as it sets and hardens in water • Reason of widely usage in Malaysia – Is because
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for this Lecture Porter M. (1990)‚ The Competitive Advantage of Nations‚ Chapters 3&4 2. Why Location Matters The ways that firms create and sustain competitive advantage in global industries provides the necessary foundation for understanding the role of the home nation in the process. There are five premises we must understand relating to national advantage: 1) The nature of competition and the sources of competitive advantage differ widely among industries and industry segments. 2) Global
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for JK Cements – Group 2 Section 1 Business Description: JK Cements is one of the largest cement manufacturers in Northern India and the eighth largest overall India with net cement sales of 2545 crores in 2011-12. Itsmain productsinclude grey and white cement. It produced 53.2 lakh tons of grey cement and 3.77 lakh tons of white cement in the financial year 201112.Grey cement produced consists of Ordinary Portland Cement (“OPC”) and Portland Pozzolana Cement (“PPC”). Their cement products
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