Faculty of Economic & Business كلية االقتصاد واإلدارة Syllabus Strategic Management (BUS 420) Muhammad Zafar Yaqub‚ Ph.D.‚ MBA‚ MA (Eco.)‚ MA (Pol. Sc.) Room No. 479‚ 4th Floor Department of Business Administration Voice Direct: +966 2 70470 Mobil: +966 565 466737 Email: zafar.yaqub@yahoo.com Skype ID : mzyaqub COURSE DESCRIPTION With the advent of the (global) marketplace becoming more and more dynamic and tough due to an ever-intensifying competition‚ a key determinant/antecedent of the firms’
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workers as a key economic resource of the twenty first century. If an employee leaves a company to work for a competitor‚ what types of knowledge could be ethical for the employee to share with the new employer and what types of knowledge would be unethical to share? The hardest thing to deal with being inside a company‚ is when you lose one of your employees to one of your competitors. You worry if that employee is going to give inside information that could cause harm to your company. Companies
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Background In the case‚ background in 1990’s China Government open beer market to foreign investor. China is a huge‚ future potential market‚ a lot of foreign brewers enter to the Chinese market and making multi million dollar investment on production facilities as well as labor market. However a few years later most of the foreign brewers were still running at loss. On other hands the local brewers with untrained management‚ problematic human resource and poor quality product and weak marketing
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COMPANY OVERVIEW OF DOMESTIC DIRECT COMPETITORS OF SIME DARBY (GENTING BERHAD) Genting Berhad (Genting)‚ a holding company for the Genting Group‚ operates resorts‚ casino and plantations. It also develops properties‚ manufactures paper and generates electricity. The company primarily operates in Malaysia. It is headquartered in Kuala Lumpur‚ Malaysia and employs 36‚000people. The company recorded revenues of MYR6‚943.8 million (approximately $1‚968.3 million) during the fiscal year ended December
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Questions Create a company in an existing industry in Zimbabwe; Come up with a mission statement‚ vision and values Do a SWOT Analysis PESTELI Do a competitor analysis Company Name The name of the company is Revival Insurance Brokers (Pvt) Ltd‚ it was inspired by a drive to doing things differently and it means the revitalization‚ renewal and reinforcement of the insurance broking business. Company background Revival Insurance Brokers (Pvt) Ltd (RIB) specialises in the provision of
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Minicase: Can Brazil Become a Global Competitor in the Information Technology Outsourcing Business? 1. Use the theories of international trade and investment that have been presented in this chapter to help explain Brazil’s intentions and actions regarding the international information technology sector. The IT Service industry has expanded rapidly. Many companies worldwide have made the decision to outsource this industry to offshore companies. Worldwide demand has increased growth to 40 to
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Brazil has emerged as a global competitor in a range of sophisticated technology sectors. They have launched active campaigns to build a strong international competitive position in the information technology off shoring business. Their IT out sourcing sector is small relative to India ’s. The theory about international trade states that the differences in endowment factors of production‚ levels of technology that determine the factor intensities used‚ efficiencies with which these factor intensities
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intensity of the competition is dependent on these mentioned five forces of economics. 1. The buying power of customers- The Competition is higher when the buying power of customers is high. This is usually the case when there are many substitutes or competitors to the product. 2. The power of suppliers to squeeze profits- The power of suppliers to squeeze profits or bargaining power suppliers is high when their product enjoys a monopoly or has features or value adds that no other or very few other competitive
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Flan Tres Leches 3. Implementation on non-traditional units including the following: Shopping mall food courts Universities Hospitals Airports Stadiums Amusement Parks Office Buildings Mobile Units 4. Increase profitability of KFC through the following: Reduced overhead costs Increased efficiencies Improved customer service Cleaner restaurants Faster and friendlier service Continued high quality products 5. Resolve franchise problems in the United States. Implied
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com/blogs/schumpeter/2012/10/chinese-fast-food> [Accessed at 10 April 2013] 4 5. Perepu‚ I.; Purkayastha‚ D.; Maseeha‚ S.(2009) “MCDONALD ’S IN CHINA” Published by IBS Center for Management Research 6 9. Lab Brand‚ 2010. Advertising Analysis: McDonald’s in China. [Online] Available at: < http://www.labbrand.com/brand-source/advertising-analysis-mcdonald’s-china-0> [Accessed 11 April 2013] 10 11. Best Sponsorship and Tie-in Campaign‚ 2009. [Online] Available at: <http://www.pmaa-awards.net/documents/Cat%202%20Best%20Sponsorship%20or%20Tie%20In%20Camp
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