Developing strategic thinking as a core competency Ingrid Bonn Graduate School of Management‚ Griffith University‚ Queensland‚ Australia Keywords Strategic planning‚ Core competences‚ Management development Introduction My research interest in strategic thinking started in 1993 when I interviewed 35 senior executives for a longitudinal study on the changes in strategic planning and strategic management in large organisations between 1982 and 1993. These senior executives were responsible
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the information age‚ library professionals require new skills in seeking‚ processing and disseminating information. Soft skills are essentials for any professionals particularly library professionals today. This paper identifies the relevant soft skills required for library professionals and the importance of those soft skills. Keywords: - Soft Skills‚ Library Professionals‚ Soft Skills for Library Professionals Introduction We live in an information society where the development of information
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be investigating the sports drinks market in the UK‚ focusing on the overall market and launching a new product. The UK sports drinks market is estimated at £1.2 billion in 2012 with a growth in sales of more than 60% by 2012 (Mintel‚ 2012) showing what a rapidly growing market this is. I will examine how a leading drinks manufacture can expand into this market and launch a new sports drink using Usain Bolt in promotion. THE MARKET The market share for sports drinks grew by 10.7% last year with
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Poverty‚ unemployment‚ illiteracy and overpopulation have plagued India for ages now. We shall discuss a segment of one of these evils – unemployment of the youth. Before a more detailed study it is important to point out that youth unemployment is a challenge for almost all nations in the world including the developed. But it is in the 3rd world countries that such unemployment has a deep social‚ political and economic clasp. Developed nations have the advantage of being more organized economically and
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Case Study: Competition in Energy Drinks‚ Sports Drinks‚ and Vitamin-Enhanced Beverages ------------------------------------------------- pavangradapp@gmail.com 1. What are the strategically relevant components of the global and U.S. beverage industry macro-environment? How do the economic characteristics of the alternative beverage segment of the industry differ from that of other beverage categories? Explain. Demographics: The total sale for beverages in 2009 in the US was about 458.3 billion
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Several years ago energy drinks barley existed. Not all people were familiar of it. People who consumed it did not understand the bad health effects behind it. This is because they were not as popular as it is today. Nowadays‚ energy beverages markets grew rapidly in recent years. There are many different brands of this drink in the world today. These beverages have caused many health problems to those who consume them. One group affected by the high consumption of energy drinks are children. The increase
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applying taxation laws; and injecting a vaccine. (Lipton‚ 2014‚ p.4) Soft skills are more difficult to quantify. These skills are personality qualities‚ habits‚ attitudes‚ and even social graces. Unlike hard skills‚ which can be evaluated by a logic intelligence test (IQ)‚ soft skills tend to use your heart‚ and conversely would be evaluated by an emotional intelligence test (EQ). This is ‘right brain’ stuff. Some examples of soft skills are anticipating risk; motivating others; teamwork; innovating;
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“Competition in Energy Drinks‚ Sport Drinks‚ and Vitamin-Enhanced Beverages” * Beverages were popular in the mid-2000s. However‚ nowadays consumers are reducing their consumption of carbonated soft drinks. * To handle this issue‚ beverage companies such as Coca-Cola and PepsiCo introduced alternative beverage such as energy drinks‚ sport drinks‚ and vitamin drinks‚ and also new relaxation drinks. * While trying to expand their market‚ beverage industry also got the criticism about
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agreement is to complement existing free trade deal between India and Association of South-East-Asian-Nations (ASEAN). Under this agreement‚ two countries are fully allowing foreign shareholding over 80 sectors including automotive and manufacture industry. Moreover‚ Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement (CECA) marks on new era bilateral ties that serve to encourage free movement of goods and services enhance their investment flows between India and Malaysia. Forge stronger economic partnership
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thought‚ there are two branches‚ hard and soft. Hard determinism‚ sees technology as developing independent from social concepts (politics‚ culture‚ economy) (Wyatt‚ 2008). Technology creates a set of powerful forces acting to regulate our social activity that we organize ourselves to meet the needs of technology and the outcome of this organization is beyond our control or we do not have the freedom to make a choice regarding the outcome (Smith‚ 1994). Soft determinism‚ is more passive in that it
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