1. Give a brief description of your business. Describe your principal products and/or services. West Designs is a highly-specialized digital marketing agency focused on creating relationships with growing businesses to serve them with impactful branding‚ highly functional and engaging websites‚ and business-changing inbound marketing. West Designs dedicates itself to three core competencies: 1. Branding: We tell stories through design and messaging. We develop extensive identity packages for
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experience and research outcomes. To effectively function as a change agent and leader to facilitate the activity certain criteria are described in Nursing Core Competencies. The novice educators are in position to analyze and examine the characteristics and what are the ways one can exercise the theory into practice‚ are elaborated in Competency 5 for nursing educators - to function as a change agent and leader
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sales. Its business portfolio ranged from its well-known plumbing fixtures to small engines and generators; and recently diversifying into furniture and luxury resorts. Known for its ability to innovate‚ Kohler Co. considered one of its main core competencies its ability to keep the company private and family owned‚ in its over 100 year history. As a privately held company‚ Kohler Co. was not required to disclose its financial statements. Furthermore‚ Kohler believed in keeping the business within
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3) Core competence / sustainable competitive advantage Online Services Division: Microsoft’s search‚ portal‚ advertising and personal communications services‚ including online information offerings such as Bing and the MSN portals and channels. Server and Tools Business: Microsoft infrastructure software‚ developer tools and cloud platform‚ including products such as Windows Server‚ SQL Server‚ Visual Studio‚ System Center and the Windows Azure Platform. Microsoft Business Solutions: A portfolio
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its Mac products‚ Apple highlighted features that differentiated them from other PCs while also emphasizing their interoperability with other machines. Attractive Apple design factors‚ ease of use‚ security‚ and high-quality bundled software were among the qualities that distinguished the Macintosh line. Apple not just sell computers‚ they also sell experience. On the other hand‚ Apple has an excellent strategic leader‚ Steve Jobs. He developed all the cutting-edge visions of new products and markets
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world-class capabilities in logistics that enabled it to track trends and have inventory in its geographically dispersed stores. Additionally‚ Circuit City developed a core of motivated and knowledgeable sales staff. Circuit City employed a big-box strategy with stores that had a large footprint that stocked a variety of products (selection) and service that relied on economies of scale to achieve high sales volumes. High sales volume enabled competitive pricing‚ but it also resulted in lower profit
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CASE- STUDY THE ADIDAS- REEBOK MERGER The case discusses the proposed merger of Reebok International Limited with Adidas-Salomon AG. It describes the recent trends and studies the ongoing merger in the sporting goods industry. The case presents the rationale behind the decision to merge. Finally‚ the case ends with a debate on whether the merger would be successful. Issues » The recent trends and structure facing the sporting goods industry » The reasons for the ongoing mergers and acquisitions
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Ribbon Sports ’ first employee‚ made his most durable contribution to the company in coming up with a new name‚ Nike‚ after the Greek goddess of victory. NIKE is the world ’s #1 shoemaker and controls over 20% of the US athletic shoe market. Reebok Reebok ’s ancestor-based company came from the United Kingdom and it was founded for one of the best reasons‚ to give athletes the best running shoes. Around 1890‚ Joseph William Foster made some of the first known running shoes with spikes in them.
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Executive Summary In order to identify Verizon’s core competencies‚ a SWOT and Five Forces analysis was performed. The SWOT analysis showed internal strengths in technology diversification‚ a large and talented employee resource pool‚ and an expansive network footprint. Internal weaknesses were revealed that centered on post merger issues such as corporate culture issues‚ impending workforce retirements‚ and a lack of systems or process consolidation. External opportunities include the potential
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Companies should strive to develop unique resources in order to gain a lasting competitive advantage. Competitive advantage‚ whatever is source‚ can ultimately be attributed to the ownership of valuable resources that enable the company to perform activities efficiently at comparatively lower costs than its competitors. Superior performance will therefore be based on developing a competitively distinct set of resources and deploying them in a well-conceived strategy. Companies should abandon the
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