Karl Held Laura Gallas Ben Midthun Riley Eichhorn Zipcar: Refining the Business Model The idea for Zipcar began in 1999 when Antje Danielson approached Robin Chase with her new idea for a start up – car sharing. Danielson had observed the concept of car sharing on a vacation in Germany‚ which she noted was a trend throughout Europe. Chase agreed to partner with Danielson and they began to develop their business plan and to seek funding for it. The entrepreneurial opportunity is definitely
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Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond‚ Washington that develops‚ manufactures‚ licenses and supports a wide range of products and services related to computing. The company was founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen on April 4‚ 1975. Microsoft is the world’s largest software maker measured by revenues. It is also one of the world’s most valuable companies. Microsoft was established to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair
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PANDORA AND THE FREEMIUM BUSINESS MODELS Presented By Kofi Frimpong-Aninakwa To Dr Ebenezer Johnson California Intercontinental University October‚ 2014 Abstract Businesses in the digital market employ different methods of e-commerce models in so as to enhance their business outlook. Some models have high costs of implementation while others are highly risky. It is very essential for a firm to assess the various benefits and shortcomings of any business model prior to implementation
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Six Thinking Hats Looking at a decision from all points of view [pic] [pic] ’Six Thinking Hats’ is an important and powerful technique. It is used to look at decisions from a number of important perspectives. This forces you to move outside your habitual thinking style‚ and helps you to get a more rounded view of a situation. This tool was created by Edward de Bono in his book ’6 Thinking Hats’. Many successful people think from a very rational‚ positive viewpoint. This is part of the reason that
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(1) Six Hats: Blue: 1. Generate ideas to encourage drives/ people to pay their parking fines 2. Explore ideas for the council to reduce parking fines debtors Red: 1. Process might let citizen get frustrated 2. Some parking areas might be too expensive for citizen to afford 3. The policies might be not that strict to citizens 4. Parking inspectors show their arrogance to people sometimes 5. It might be easy to get nasty ‘surprise’ from someone is rude and do not like follow the legislation
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1.0 Case Study : Microsoft in India 1. Why does Microsoft’s traditional strategy of one size fits all not work well in emerging markets such as India? There are four main marketing strategies. It can be categorized as Globalization strategy‚ transnational strategy‚ internationalization strategy and localization strategy. As shown in diagram 1.0. Emphasis on local responsiveness high low low
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Microsoft Dynamics ERP systems for managing companies have been‚ and are‚ a key factor in business development. Its continuous evolution‚ have passed being a mere tool‚ to be a competitive and strategic element‚ even to generate new business models based on their development. These systems have been forced to evolve dramatically in recent times to accommodate different‚ rapid and significant advances both technological‚ and in terms of policies and philosophies of management in the company. Currently
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GN Resound Business Model; To appropriately recommend GN Resound on how to move forward with their decision making processes‚ it is important to understand the business-model as a whole. In particular the issue with retail – can be determined by once again clarifying how GN Resounds business model looks now and therefore be able to explain efficiently how their business model should look moving forward and which strategies GN should consider. To identify how GN Resounds business model is we have
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E-Business Model Design‚ Classification‚ and Measurements Magali Dubosson-Torbay Alexander Osterwalder Yves Pigneur Executive Summary “Business model” is one of the latest buzzwords in the Internet and electronic business world. This article has the ambition to give this term a more rigorous content. The objective is threefold. The first objective is to propose a theoretical e-business model framework for doing business in the Internet era. The second is to propose a multidimensional classification-scheme
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are many similarities between the story and the movie versions of “The Ransom of Red Chief”‚ but there are also many differences between them as well. For example‚ in the original story‚ Bill and Sam lured the boy with candy. However in the movie‚ they just sneak up on him and trap him in a box. Also in the story‚ Bill and Sam started off with $600. While in the movie‚ they started off with $300 instead. In the story‚ Red Chief didn’t drive Bill and Sam’s car‚ but in the movie‚ he does drive their car
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