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2.1 Strategic Cost Management and the Value Chain Introduction This article by John K. Shank and Vijay Govindarajan discuss in depth on the Strategic Cost Management (SCG) and the Value Chain concept applied in real world situation from the airline industry. The Value Chain concept is divided into two (2) main strategies which are the Low-Cost Strategy and Differentiation Strategy. From the article also‚ Shank and Govindasamy stated that the primary focus of a low cost strategy is to achieve the
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CASE “Citibank: Performance Evaluation” Harvard Business School 9-198-048 rev: October 14‚ 1999 The Performance Scorecard: a strategic management tool Frits Seegers‚ President of Citibank California‚ is convinced that “in a competitive marketplace where businesses compete for customers‚ customer satisfaction is seen as a key differentiator and increasingly has become a key element of business strategy”1. Fulfilling customers’ expectations is a critical issue for the long term business sustainability
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evaluation of performance of James McGaran‚ Branch Manager of Citibank in Los Angeles by his Area Manager‚ Lisa Johnson‚ and the discrepancies that crept in during the evaluation process. In the case‚ it can be seen how Lisa Johnson had failed to reflect some of the performances properly leading to a stalemate position in the performance evaluation of an efficient manager like James McGaran. James McGaran was a branch manager of Citibank in Los Angles and the branch he is handing is placed in one
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Day #2 Porter’s Strategic Models: The Five forces and the Value Chain CIS Department Professor Duane Truex III The Information Systems Strategy Triangle Business Strategy Organizational Design Strategy ICT/Information Strategy Professor Truex E-CommercePrinciples 1 HOW CAN INFORMATION RESOURCES BE USED STRATEGICALLY? Professor Truex E-CommercePrinciples Aligning IS/ICT strategy (Infrastructures) with business strategy • Using multiple approaches to evaluating
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ECCO A/S-GLOBAL VALUE CHAIN MANAGEMENT ANALYSIS 1. Describe the competitive environment of ECCO and determine how well ECCO is positioned (vis-à-vis the competitors) to take advantage of changes in the industry. http://wulibraries.typepad.com/files/footwear.pdf 2. Analyze ECCO’s global value chain. How well does this configuration match the drivers in the industry? Analyze ECCO’s global value chain. High demand for quality and reduced lead times led the company to a self-sufficiency approach on
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Porter and Shank assess the addition of value as management of costs in an effort to increase efficiency or add value to the organization as a whole. Porter model concentrates primarily on the internal control of operations via the value chain‚ whereas Shank concentrates on value addition. Porter’s model utilizes internal cost strategies for internal reduction of costs to increase value only on the value additions (microcosm) whereas Shank expands the value chain against both internal and external evaluations
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CENTER on GLOBALIZATION‚ GOVERNANCE & COMPETITIVENESS The Apparel Global Value Chain ECONOMIC UPGRADING AND WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT Karina Fernandez-Stark Stacey Frederick Gary Gereffi Contributing CGGC Researchers: Penny Bamber and Ghada Ahmed NOVEMBER 2011 The Apparel Global Value Chain: Economic Upgrading and Workforce Development “Skills for Upgrading: Workforce Development and Global Value Chains in Developing Countries” This research project examines workforce development
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Ethics‚ values‚ and sustainability Prof. Lovas March 27‚ 2014 Citibank Case Study 1. I believe that the provisions made to the Dodd Frank Act that mandates advisory shareholder votes on executive compensation was a good change. I agree with this provision because I believe that the shareholders should ultimately have a say I’m what sort of compensation the executives of the company are taking. They are the real company owners and it’s their money that’s on the line if Citibank doesn’t succeed
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Citibank eBusiness for Global Corp Banking Setting the stage : Referring to Citibank’s case‚ analyse: 1. 2. 3. Standard Value Chain (primary & secondary) Software applications responsible for step 1 Citibank’s 3-stage e-Business strategy Using Value Chain for a manufacturing company to show how Citi’s products and services assist each part of the manufacturing company’s value chain activity‚ both primary & secondary. Primary Activities Secondary/ Support Activities Goal
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